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NNadir

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2. Yet another "By 2050." I'm old enough to remember "by 2000" arguments of a similar type.
Sat Dec 26, 2020, 07:16 AM
Dec 2020

These "by 'such and such a year'" announcements are nothing more than expressions of contempt for future generations.

The problem is now, and it was now in 2000.

The fact is that the technology has existed for a very long time to eliminate fossil fuels - and no, reactionary horseshit about so called "renewable energy" is not it - and has been well understood in Cambridge, where MIT has a nuclear engineering department.

Yet another cigarette type package warning isn't going to cut it, any more than California's warning on gasoline pumps that gasoline is a carcinogen (which it is) has had an effect on climate change.

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