• kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Well, it doesn’t have to get worse, AFAIK we are still headed towards human extinction due to Climate Change

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      7 hours ago

      I’m reading hopeful signs from China that they are actually making positive progress toward sustainability. Not that other big players are keeping up with them, but still how 1 billion people choose to live does make a difference.

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah, China is doing rather well in transition to Renewables and Nuclear, though it might be concerning for the future when we will have to buy everything Solar and SMR related from them

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          5 hours ago

          The only thing driving solar panel production development to China is cost. Cost of labor, cost of environmental regulations, maybe cost of raw material acquisition… All that investment there for the past 20+ years driven by cost is “paying off” now with their production capacity. We’re getting TMSC plants in Arizona, we’ve already got BMW, Mercedes, Toyota etc. production plants in the US, nothing stopping us from building solar panel factories, except international corporate profit optimization.

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      10 hours ago

      Honestly, the “human extinction” level of climate change is very far away. Currently, we’re preventing the “sunken coastal cities, economic crisis and famine in poor regions” kind of change, it’s just that “we’re all gonna die” sounds flashier.

      We have the time to change the course, it’s just that the sooner we do this, the less damage will be done. This is why it’s important to solve it now.

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        7 hours ago

        Currently, we’re preventing the “sunken coastal cities, economic crisis and famine in poor regions” kind of change

        Are we really preventing it? Seems like the track toward that change is mostly unabated. Sure, it’s a couple of generations out before it gets serious, but what are the signs that the track has improved?