To your footnote, you're not wrong, but climate change is a better and more encompassing description for what people experience: more extreme weather, be it heat, cold, precipitation or drought. We can't feel an average temperature rise of 1.5 degrees, but I can certainly tell you that we just experienced the hottest summer peak temperatures on record.
Your attitude reminds me of the religious fundamentalists I grew up with, who were still arguing about "evolutionism" and expressing skepticism over the idea of geological time as recently as the '80s and '90s.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 35.8 ms ] threadFancy futuristic magic tech isn't going to save us.
This sounds like the flying-cars-solves-traffic BS: dark PR funded by the Fossil Fuel industry.
Dark PR talk (regarding the road lobby): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP41Hsr4fMA
* climate change is term coined by Big Oil PR to make global warming sounds less scary -
So what if we can't stop drilling, or can't do that soon enough?
We're trying for quite some time already, we see some results of our attempts, it's probably a good question to ask.
That's quite the scale.
> The solar sail model, to its credit, is capable of being dismantled if things go wrong.
I'm sensing a potential issue here...