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pastageyesterday at 5:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

While I have no problem blaming the rich. You are post here you are most probably part of those people who are skirting it at their leisure. Even I with a life long devotion to climate and environmental issues have a hard time to be a positive effect. The only way to not skirt your responsibilities right now is to be a Greta Thunberg.

> liquified dinosaur bones

I know this is a nice factoid that does not need to be true. When I was 13 I did believed it, so now days I try to not spread this factoid. We can talk about the fascinating history of millions of years of efficient carbon storage on our planet.


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latchkeyyesterday at 6:18 PM

> I know this is a nice factoid that does not need to be true. When I was 13 I did believed it, so now days I try to not spread this factoid.

I took it as sarcasm.

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SecretDreamsyesterday at 8:51 PM

The rich and powerful bit was specifically around how we could easily do more for clean energy and pollution if politicians and ultra elites stopped acting like it's economics preventing us to do so. World powers are fine to go to war on a whim, but the second we talk about health care, cleaner energy, pollution, or other topics that will broadly benefit humanity, we are met with "this is too expensive to do".