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NPVT t1_iya18zq wrote

No it won't. Humanity it too greedy and short sighted to do anything like that. We can't even stop producing gigatons of CO2 every year in order to just survive.

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Sashinii t1_iya1y9j wrote

Technology will solve global warming and medicine will enable everyone to live forever.

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hucktard t1_iybbxxr wrote

If you ignore media hysteria and read the actual reports from actual scientists, global warming isn’t even going to be that bad. The world will warm by a few degrees and we will deal with it because we will be richer and have more technology. There are way bigger concerns than global warming.

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botfiddler t1_iye7re1 wrote

My dude, it's very bad or worse than most people think it is. That's the only message by scientists. "Economists" don't count. It's just not easily solvable because entrenched political positions and interests, to an extent where it's pointless to care about it. We can only hope for technology to fix some of it, for the survivors, after the first real big waves of destruction came in. No one would take this risk and accept the loss of ecosystems intentionally.

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botfiddler t1_iye6dnq wrote

>We can't even stop producing gigatons of CO2 every year in order to just survive.

There are reasons for why this comparison doesn't work. But I don't want to get into politics.

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NPVT t1_iye8rt0 wrote

I think it does. The inability of humans to work for the future. Short term greed overwhelms everything. The excessive consumption of fossil fuels is controlled by the rich and powerful who don't want to lose that rich and powerful so they will kill the Planet for short term gains. Space ladder construction would require a huge amount of money to accomplish. No one wants to give up their money to do that.

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gergnerd t1_iya5f08 wrote

not only that this is the same shit they say every couple years. The reality is the physics dont add up with current materials and it wouldn't be cost effective anyways. We are never building a space elevator.

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botfiddler t1_iye8727 wrote

I listened to podcast (in German, Pritlove) some years ago where someone working for European Space Agency as mission planner did the math, and concluded the materials only need to get 10x-100x stronger to make it work.

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