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Originally Posted by blankall
People are also making the assumption that government/international involvement would have sped up technological advancement. As it is, all the major businesses in the world were already going full steam ahead with attempting to create better batteries, conductors, power sources, etc..
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Meanwhile others are saying that if the free market consumers hadn’t been manipulated into believing fossil fuel use wouldn’t inevitably need to be greatly reduced there would have been a greater demand for better technology sooner which would have lead to more private money being invested into research and development, which ought to have lead to less government involvement. Free market only works flawlessly when greed and external influences aren’t a factor.
I don’t disagree that governments are doing an exceptionally poor job of handling this. Setting total emissions targets without any practical road map to achieve those targets is pointless. What they should be doing is promoting and expanding the use of existing greener technology and infrastructure that we know work so that people can more easily afford and more practically actually use those things. Will that make it so they hit their targets? Probably not, but it would actually reduce fossil fuel use which is more than I can say about most of their current plans which likely won’t result in their targets being achieved anyways.