Global warming will be solved by some major technological breakthrough, not by people changing their day-to-day behavior.
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Andrew Hedges
on February 18, 2007
I wish people were more willing to change their lifestyles, but the truth is that most people are a little selfish in this regards, especially Americans who are the biggest polluters. Try to tell folks in China and India to slow down their march towards a higher standard of living. Good luck! Hence, my claim that it will have to be technology that saves us from ourselves. It's just human nature.
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There's already so much carbon in the air that an increase in global temperatures of several degrees is inevitable without some sort of fix beyond simply reducing carbon emissions.
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There's already so much carbon in the atmosphere that an increase in global temperatures of several degrees is inevitable without some sort of fix beyond simply reducing carbon emissions.It is likely to either not be solved (or solved by a long period of time passing, depending on your definitions), or be solved by a combination of several technological breakthroughs and the change (possibly mostly thereby) of daily habits.
Combination of both. I think it is irresponsible to think a life of excess and waste that is justified/rationalized by an as yet-to-be-invented technology.
Even if all the people in the world change their day-to-day behavior nothing will change.
Global warming is caused mostly be companies, and they won't move a finger even if all the individuals of the company care about the environment. They are wired to care only about profits. So unless the customers demand change they'll do nothing.
Even if all the people and all the companies become instantaneously environmentally aware it will take time to implement the changes.
Even if tomorrow we suddenly stop contaminating the planet, there's material out there already that will not go away, and will increase global warming.
The worst is yet to come, regardless of what we do in our day-to-day basis.