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kacesensitive ◴[] No.43593217[source]
Earth gets over 170,000 terawatts of solar energy every day—10,000 times more than humanity uses. Losing just a fraction of our cloud cover means a massive, invisible throttle is coming off the climate system. If this trend holds, we’re not just warming—we’re stepping on the gas.
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amazingamazing ◴[] No.43593530[source]
These types of comments are pointless. We are destroying the world. Ok. What’s the solution? All involve pain, but no one wants to talk about that. Tech isn’t going to solve it. For one, the kind of person on this site is contributing literally 10000x more to the issue than the worlds bottom, so we can start there.

People love tech solutions, because then they don’t have to stop consuming and live modestly.

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TheBigSalad ◴[] No.43593606[source]
We could solve this problem in a few years with technology if we really wanted to.
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anthropodie ◴[] No.43593654[source]
I don't necessarily agree with GP's comment but they do have a valid point.

> We could solve this problem in a few years with technology if we really wanted to.

Everybody wants to solve the problem with technology. What if, the solution is just plain old hard work like planting trees, conservation, better recycling, better laws that help in saving ecosystem. But who would do that. So let's keep on creating problems with technology and then solve them with more technology.

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jansan ◴[] No.43593674[source]
What technology specifically has caused the clouds to shrink?
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1. anthropodie ◴[] No.43593748[source]
Humanity has tendency to do things wrong and then decades later realize that what we were doing was awful to the planet.