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Originally Posted by Izzle
You're suggesting that this is an engineering problem. But the fundamental issue remains - the increasing ferocity of these events. Full disclosure, I am basing this on pictures of Hurricane Andrew and its size relative to Hurricane Irma.
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Katrina was of comparable size:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.d0bd50d5d837
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Shouldn't we listen to the scientists and change human behaviour now rather than try to engineer our way out of these issues in the future?
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Human civilization is essentially all about engineering our way out of issue that the world throws at us. And modern human civilization is utterly dependent on huge amounts of energy, of which 80% is provided by fossil fuels and has barely budged even with the multi-trillion dollar investment in green technology made in the past decade. You can't just say that people need to get off fossil fuels, you have to offer solutions that provide low-CO2 energy at the same scale and cost.