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Saying It Out Loud Isn't Enough (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by AvogadroJones to c/doomers

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It's all fine and good for John Kerry to utter a fundamental truth about a major driver of climate catastrophe, but it is a useless proclamation without offering a solution.

Have enough tipping points been breached that there are no prescriptions to offer?

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[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago

I seem to remember reading a blog post from a physicist about this. He was talking to an economist who though growth would continue forever, but then he pointed out current levels of energy consumption growth would take only a few centuries to get to the point of cooking the Earth just with waste heat.