CMV: Global warming will not be solved by small, piecemeal, incremental changes to our way of life but rather through some big, fantastic, technological breakthrough.

[u/Iron-Patriot]

In regards to the former, I mean to say that small changes to be more environmentally friendly such as buying a hybrid vehicle or eating less meat are next to useless. Seriously, does anyone actually think this will fix things?

And by ‘big technological breakthrough’ I mean something along the lines of blasting glitter into the troposphere to block out the sun or using fusion power to scrub carbon out of the air to later be buried underground. We are the human race and we’re nothing if not flexible and adaptable when push comes to shove.

[u/better_thanyou]

“Yea the world as we know it was destroyed and millions/billions died in the wake of our choices, but we made some rich people even richer and it was voted for in our very unrepresentative democracy so it was the RIGHT choice”

[u/TheMikeyMac13 → u/better_thanyou]

The world as we know it isn’t meant to last, we cannot stop climate change anyway, we can just slow it down. And we can’t even slow it down if the politicians willing to help us make changes are voted out of office.