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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTOM TOMORROW: The Looming Threat
Daily Kos Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/20/1403163/-Cartoon-The-looming-threat
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,481 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Bam, problem solved.
longship
(40,416 posts)It will all be done with smoke and mirrors.
artislife
(9,497 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)Over and over until the alien heads explode.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Beartracks
(12,761 posts)Which for climate change is kinda weird, since they don't think it's a disaster in the first place.
But anyhow, it's the same movie-script mentality that dictates that politics is just a game to be won -- like football! -- and that good guys with guns are automatically transformed into Rambo.
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MattSh
(3,714 posts)The weird notion that there's a technological solution to every problem. But hey, hoping for a technological solution is a whole lot easier than than actually doing something.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)the people who sit around waiting for their beloved outside force to step in and take them away from all this aren't the fundies (they're TOO active in this material world) but the techies
go figure
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)The Republicans don't want to spend money on these things and don't want to use the technologies already handed to them.
Hell, we could simply stop burning down rain forests for sugarcane and palm oil plantations, but then where would wealthy American capitalists purchase slightly cheaper products from?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)jeff47
(26,549 posts)What we don't have are cheap technological solutions to this problem.
We can literally extract the CO2 from the atmosphere. It would take enormous amounts of power, and enormous amounts of space to store the CO2.
That makes it rather impractical, and unlikely to be rolled out unless the situation has already become dire.
Raster
(20,996 posts)...trees, perhaps.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Even if we could magically stop all CO2 emissions this second, we will be having large-scale climate change. Trees and other plants would take hundreds of years to fix enough carbon to get back down to pre-industrial levels.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Stop digging.
rpannier
(24,304 posts)You blame Obama
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)When do we want it? BENGHAZI!
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Platitudes are not plans.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)And I'm not sure we have to move the entire Earth's economy to zero carbon emissions. The very least we can do is slow the problem. Just because climate change is already happening doesn't mean we can't make it even worse.
There's a lot of things humans can do to ameliorate the effects. Use natural gas as a bridge fuel to full-scale solar, wind, wave, geothermal, and nuclear power. Raise gas taxes and use the extra money for cost- and carbon-efficient mass transit. Keep raising fuel efficiency standards and stop burning coal as fast as is feasible. Methane abatement and energy generation on municipal dumps (widespread).
It takes time to put out a house fire, but that doesn't mean we get to say "fuck it" and break out the marshmallows.
Paladin
(28,202 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Gothmog
(143,998 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)That "head up the ass" mentality is going to be our end.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)K&R
LiberalLovinLug
(14,153 posts)Tom Tomorrow is da bomb
tclambert
(11,080 posts)"He's trying to extend his Presidential powers in violation of the Constitution and ignoring the rights of Congress by ginning up an imaginary alien threat. That video was clearly faked by the Democrat Hollywood machine and Al Gore. Benghazi!"
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Only to discover a dead planet with some really impressive balance sheets.
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)$209,000 pledged of an $84,000 target, and still 14 days to go.
-- Mal
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.