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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Until it is affordable for people to live close to where they work without having to pay most of their income to landlords/money lenders, or for alternate fuel sources to become affordable, there really isn't any hope for this to turnaround either. The people currently profiting from the activities that contribute the most to global warming aren't going to give it up without a fight.
Honestly, I think there has to be a complete social revolution in order to change anything that isn't a temporary stop-gap solution.
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Electric cars are coming, and sooner than most think. So are alternate sources of electricity. As battery technology finally catches up with combustion technology price will decrease significantly.
As for giving up without a fight, the coal industry is losing outside china and doesn't want to. Economics fixes that alone. What we need is an embrace of nuclear, which may prove difficult