• Pladermp@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Well I’ll keep in mind that cures for cancer in mice should be proof against despair should anyone I know or love come down with it.

    Yes, if your loved one comes down with a cancer that can be cured by applying existing technologies, not ones that have been tested in mice, but ones that are currently being used successfully to treat patients you should not despair!

    Worry? Stress? Generally be concerned? Fucking riot if the government starts limiting/preventing access to that treatment? Yeah sure, that would be a healthy response. But despair? No way!

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      1 year ago

      Oh, so there are scalable technologies to bring climate change back to decades earlier levels in existence already and not just in theory in research? Is that what you’re claiming?

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        1 year ago

        Not to reverse current climate change, but we aren’t living in the Mad Max reality just yet.

        But the technologies needed to seriously limit climate change and achieve Paris agreement commitments do exist. It’s really just employing solar, wind, and batteries at scale, electrifying what we can, and using biofuels for the rest.

        And the IPCC plans don’t require people to give up having families for a generation.