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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Do you agree that climate change will have high costs on society for millenia to come?
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Yes.
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Do you think the costs of trying to significantly reduce fossil fuel consumption in the short-run are lower than the costs of climate change over the long run?
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Costs in what context? In monetary terms or in terms of lost homes, food and lives? It will be really expensive to significantly reduce consumption (because we'd have to jump start the alternative techs and their implementation), but the real costs of long-run climate change are ones of actual physical damage to our environment and our species.
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Do you think dealing with climate change means fundamentally reorienting our economy and society or can we incrementally transition without significant social upheaval?
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Yes, it will require fundamental re-orientation, which is think the biggest thing that deters us from doing it.
Or I guess I should frame it more like, both are possible (there could be incremental change, and probably would be eventually, if we make it that far) but IMO, it's too slow and left up to too many human variables to be left for the free market to figure out. In order to make any real change, this stuff needs to begin being implemented yesterday.