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Originally Posted by accord1999
Katrina was of comparable size:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...=.d0bd50d5d837
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. |
I'll be the first to admit I don't have any solutions. I suppose the time to make changes was in the 1980s when ExxonMobil first noticed the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
In a way, what are humans willing to deal with? The costs associated with a reduced (but still sharp) decrease in the standard of living or a shock to the system (like hurricanes) every so often.