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Plenty-Today4117 t1_ix2gel7 wrote

No its not ignorant. In fact all doomer prophecies rely on the fact we will not progress, but stagnate or regress. However civilizations have regressed and collapsed in the past, so this is a possibility.

BTW

There are people who are working on inventions that pull carbon out of the sky, and are looking for investors.

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Bakoro t1_ix2ww86 wrote

"Doomers" believe in a little thing called "physics".

Pull all the carbon out of the air that you want, there's still an entire ocean full of it. There are still whole ecosystems on brink of collapse.

Investors and their capital aren't going to save us. It's going to be people burning through cash trying to get nine women to make a baby in a month.

Realistically, there's no way to stop the shit from hitting the fan, there's just managing the next hundred years.

If we by chance crack getting functionally unlimited clean energy, then we'll still have a butt load of work to do.

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userbrn1 t1_ix42oqg wrote

> f we by chance crack getting functionally unlimited clean energy, then we'll still have a butt load of work to do.

If we mastered nuclear fusion today it would still be over 20 years before it replaced even 5% of global energy generation. It takes time to scale things up especially if they're huge in scale already, like global energy production.

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