There is already four times as much solar capacity worldwide as analysts in 2010 had forecast for 2035.
  • Pieplup (They/Them)@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    I personally don’t think just getting clean energy will be enough to not have catastrophic impacts. We will have to develpo carbon-negative technologies and actively help clean up the planet. So this doesn’t temper my pessimism. Cause realistically as long as capitalism exists as a global hegemonic force. It’s not going to happen because it is not profitable.

    • bobs_guns@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      The most important thing right now is to actually draw down emissions. As long as the US has a right wing party that denies climate change in office every 4 years it will have to be very economically advantageous to use renewables instead. Climate change is a situation where any country can fairly easily make things much worse in a way that is difficult to clean up (due to entropy of releasing carbon dioxide into the air.)