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Old 05-05-2022, 05:19 PM   #22 (permalink)
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1) Everything except for coal, petroleum, and natural gas, with the caveat that, the longer it takes to get onto the renewables, the longer we keep consuming the fossil-fuels.
Awesome! Moon Power is on the table.

What's needed is concurrent application of direct carbon capture; from the oceans not the atmosphere, and in bio-char. Massive, widespread bio-char.

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* I might argue about the 'rationality' of people on the whole.
* I don't see 'sacrifice' necessarily on the menu. I think that people will continue to basically do all the things they like to do, they'll just do it with different stuff.
* I don't know any Christians that are that anxious to get into Heaven, so, death may be a hard sell.
* I think that real 'wealth' will increase.
* And with measurable benefits.
This sounds just like Scott Adams (arationality and the Golden Age) and by extension Dale Carnegie.
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