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It just seems collectively insane to NOT be researching the hell out of the possibility that we could regulate our global heat balance issues for a cost of a few tens of billions of dollars a year.

Especially when the alternative solution to global warming is… degrowth. Which is just not going to work functionally as a political policy in a competitive world.

Fossil fuel use will decrease significantly… eventually.

Btw, did you know that if the USA replaced farmland currently growing biofuels with solar, that land area would produce 4x the current total electricity use of the entire nation?

We need to buy time — we can’t let the permafrost melt because “stupid humans deserve it”



> that land area would produce 4x the current total electricity use of the entire nation?

Would it produce that much or would that be the capacity? They're very different things that i see endlessly confused in this context.




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