• Chastity2323@midwest.social
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    21 hours ago

    While I can respect a lot of those philanthropic efforts, those should not be his decisions alone to make. That money should’ve been paid into taxes and distributed in agreed upon ways.

    As a capitalist, all of his solutions are capitalist. His efforts to slow climate change are primarily technological, with a focus on unproven horseshit like carbon capture rather than proven improvements like better, less car centric urban planning and reducing meat intake. He would never even consider an strategy of economic degrowth to fight climate change even though available evidence shows that that is exactly what we need.

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      21 hours ago

      I think we’re well past the chance of urban designing our way out of the climate collapse.

      We need to make major changes in our consumption to even make a dent, but I say our best shot is cold fusion and carbon capture. Those are obvious longshots.

      We’ve created a runaway greenhouse gas effect. Even if we cut emissions to 0 temperatures will continue to climb.

      Obviously cutting emissions to 0 would give us more time to fix this mess though

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        21 hours ago

        We need to make major changes in our consumption to even make a dent, but I say our best shot is cold fusion and carbon capture. Those are obvious longshots.

        I would argue for extensive rewilding as an alternative