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    4 days ago

    Waiting around for the technology to magically pop up will doom us to an unending dustbowl and war and maybe even extinction

    Technology doesnt get developed unless there is demand, except by university kids who take out massive loans to do the work of research.

    We need to create demand by demanding action by governments and divesting from fossil fuels. That is the intent of the protestors.

    I’ve besn participating in non-obstructive protests for almost 2 decades and it’s done virtuallty nothing

    What you are seeing is desperation. We need financial incentives for going green dont pan out for 50 years so nobody cares. Most people are to busy trying to pay rent this month to care about 50 years from now.

    BTW if 50 years ago folks had heeded the initial warnings of scientists and curbed emissions by 0.5% annually, global warming would not be an issue.

    Instead we drastically increased emissions since then, we now need to cut a ridiculous percentage annually and we’re still going to lose trillions of dollars to climate related damage, crop loss and climate-related wars.