this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need both. Fucking hate binary thinking. It's a curse.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe, but one seems to get all the attention and little results.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because no one pays attention to the huge developments in infrastructure or the amazing new technologies coming to market - e fuels like sequestered carbon jet fuel made from excess renewable power, and no it's not a science fiction dream it's happening now. Of course we should have more funding for these things but they are happening.

A huge part of that problem is that people resist even the slightest positive change, paper straws are fine but I bet there are people who like this post who also liked posts complaining about them - if we stopped organized sports and spent that half a trillion on transitioning local infrastructure or establishing carbon sequestration systems with productive use of captured carbon (e.g. building materials that get landfilled at eol) we could move much faster, but no one will give up a single football game to save the planet they'd rather bomb something and feel like a hero

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bread and circuses, working as intended. We wouldn't want people coming home after a day's work and putting anger and frustration into something productive, would we?