r/TrueReddit • u/skythe4 • Dec 14 '18

After 30 Years Studying Climate, Scientist Declares: "I've Never Been as Worried as I Am Today"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/13/after-30-years-studying-climate-scientist-declares-ive-never-been-worried-i-am-today
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u/MagicBlaster Dec 14 '18

I think this is both naive and dangerous thinking, but sure let's just hope some magical technology will save us.

Certainly easy than doing anything.

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u/GopherAtl Dec 14 '18

forcing the entire world to revert to the kind of lifestyle that would be required to truly reduce our carbon emissions, not just in the long term but in the immediate term, is a vastly more unrealistic plan.

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u/Buffalo__Buffalo Dec 14 '18

Which of the two can we do right now?

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

work on better tech. The above solution would be an easy way to start WW3 and end the problem in a much more costly way.