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Isn’t it fascinating how all of a sudden we swap energy saving and data protection for convenience.

We won’t solve climate change but we will have elaborate essays why we failed.






I think for the majority of the population, solving climate change is a non-goal. Even people who ostensibly care about it aren't willing to sacrifice anything for it.

How long will that remain true though? The effects of climate change will only get worse.

Even when it's a goal, it's one that only works with a collective action and vanishingly few defectors; and the more defectors, the easier it becomes to tell oneself a narrative that ones own actions don't matter because those defectors have already broken it anyway.

Personally, I'm still optimistic, at least for the emissions due to primary energy, because renewables and storage are just so ridiculously cheap now.

Unfortunately, all the other emissions are still enough that prisoner's dilemma type defection still comes into play. But I'm hopeful for cement, and have good reason to expect electrolytic reduction of metal oxides (beyond just aluminium) to become viable soon, as the primary energy is made increasingly renewable and cheap.


Elaborate wrong essays why we failed.



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