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Don’t let anyone tell you there’s nothing our governments can do to combat climate change. They can. They simply choose not to, because they don’t consider anything worth doing unless it’s immediately profitable. Profit takes precedence over progress. This has not only caused virtually every environmental problem we’re facing, but it’s also why our entire society is stagnating under a culture of consumerism and disposable commodities.
This is referring to the CCC (civilian conservation corps), basically a tree planting army under FDR. Overall they planted about 3 billion trees all over the country, it was so successful that most Americans really don’t know that a solid chunk of their forests are only about 100-85 year old new growths. Volunteer conservationist groups nowadays could potentially recreate this at a notably smaller scale if the government were to provide a store of local seeds and land to remediate.
The Canadian government is doing this, with an aim to plant 2 billion trees. Right now they’re starting with seed banking to make sure they have seeds for indigenous varieties, to plant native species in their correct locations.
Former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong is also backing reforestation with his company Terraformation, by creating mobile seed bank labs that fit in shipping containers, that are self-contained and solar-powered.
I was reading the “Green New Deal” and I have to say that solar, wind, and geothermal are not going to be the clean energy future for humanity. They will have some roles to play, but there is something much better.The future will be fusion, which is cleaner, safer, and more efficient than those three mentioned previous. It will not only be the best source of green energy, it will not only make the climate change debate a moot argument one way or the other, but it will be the source of energy which will transform mankind into a new social and technological era. I earnestly believe it’s going to happen in the next handful of decades at the very most and it’s going to be really awesome and I wish I could live longer to see more than just barely see the very beginnings of it.
No. Climate Change is happening now, fusion power is at best decades away, if ever. No one has ever demonstrated a viable form of fusion power generation. By wrapping fusion into the climate debate, it turns solutions into something that could happen in the future. Climate Change requires solutions now, not in fifty years.
Theoretical technology has no place in the Climate Change debate.