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jonwinstanleytoday at 7:14 PM3 repliesview on HN

Well, we can see it coming, but we are doing very little about


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CGMthrowawaytoday at 8:56 PM

We are doing a lot. Almost 90% of electricity capacity added last year was renewables. Nearly 1 in 3 cars sold are now EVs. The world is spending over $2 trillion every year on low‑carbon energy investment. Solar and wind have already avoided more than 2 gigatons of C02 being added to the atmosphere. In the US, the IRA will drop emissions 40% to below 2005 levels.

What do you mean we are doing very little?

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inigyoutoday at 7:15 PM

We've been seeing our own certain destruction from climate change coming since the 70s. The 1870s. We had two entire lifetimes to do something about it, we didn't.

Except those guys throwing soup at the fossil fuel HQs. They did a little.

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windexh8ertoday at 7:43 PM

We're building more data centers for a technology that's ramping global warming even faster. Water consumption, heat generation and tons and tons of CO2 emitting concrete to house these things.

So we're doing something, but those things are counterproductive to our planet's general well being. Apparently billionaires don't need an inhabitable Earth to live on.

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