alt Hacker News> if everyone did the super hard thing in the past
I'd settle for the present - or the near future - or at all, ever, really, in place of the "let's just drive this bus off the cliff at full speed and hope our children learn to fly in midair" policy we've been implicitly choosing.
Solar is the cheapest source of electricity now and we've got grid scale batteries that are economical. The solution is here.
Climate change is too. It's time to stop worrying and hoping drastic prevention plans are going to work because it's already happened. The world is going to change and people are going to have to change with it (and move, mostly).