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singpolyma3 • today at 1:53 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Wasn't the complete worldwide failure to anything about COVID exactly a high speed analogue io how we've also failed to do anything about climate change?


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Devasta • today at 2:26 PM

Sort of, but there is a crucial difference: the lockdowns affected the treats. There is nothing about a rapid rollout of renewable energy in the US and elsewhere that would threaten the supply of McNuggets, the main thing people would see is their energy bills go down as they get plentiful daytime solar and can charge house batteries on cheaper night rates.

mihaaly • today at 2:35 PM

A big one. We just need to look at the noaa.gov CO2 chart.

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/global.html