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Originally Posted by Mathgod
I guess I would be more optimistic about a mostly technological solution if it weren't for the fact that we've known about climate change for many decades, yet here we sit with carbon emissions continuing to soar every year, and only a tiny fraction of the world's energy coming from clean energy. If technology was going to be the answer all along, why hasn't it come along further than it has?
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The same argument can be made (more emphatically, IMO) with respect to constraint and human behavior - if human can change, why haven't they?