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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, the alternative is to elect people who give a damn and know what they’re doing, go after the oligarchs, tax the hell out of them so that states actually have resources to get shit done.

Ok, so keep waiting for everyone to wake up while the temperatures raise. That worked great for the last 3 decades. I'm sure we can keep doing it for couple more with same results. Let's just move the goal to 3C and keep waiting.

Public money that we give to them in exchange of a promise they’ll do something useful?

I already explained. Not for a promise, for implementing it. We have to come up with actual, concrete plan that will lower temperatures. It will be very expensive. To implement it we will have to extract even more wealth from the 99% and pay private companies to implement it. 1% will benefit by implementing it, not by promising something. Private contractors make money on public projects every day. Look it up.

And let's be clear, I obviously know that the world will go with your plan and nothing will be done while everyone waits for revolution. I jut want people to understand what's going on.

You have two choices:

  • get up right now, storm the headquarters of the oil and AI companies, kick out the corrupt politicians and change the system
  • pay the rich people to save up

Did you get up? Are you storming? No? Then it's already too late the only solution is to pay up.

Maybe if more people will realize what the choices are something will move.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look, I don't know if you're a troll or seriously delusional. But planting the solutions as "do nothing" or "give everything left to billionaires so that they follow a plan that addresses global warming but in a way that's profitable for billionaires without putting any constrain on them" is not just a fallacy, it's laughingly absurd.

Your plan does not exist, and will most likely never exist. And even if you could find some mad scientist proposing a plan (not backed by a scientific consensus), you have no way to convince billionaires to fund it. They don't need you to get the 99% money funnelled in their pocket.

But I will store that idea somewhere close to the proposal to burn every fossil fuel left on Earth to supply AI so that AI finds a solution to global warming.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 0 points 1 day ago

you have no way to convince billionaires to fund it.

give everything left to billionaires so that they follow a plan that addresses global warming but in a way that’s profitable for billionaires without putting any constrain on them”

What I wrote is really not that complicated but it's clearly beyond your understanding. I'm sure other people will get it.