What's the best way to profit from rising sea levels? Investing in land that's higher up in our nearby coastal cities?
Guns.
West Antarctica Begins to Destabilize with ‘Intense Unbalanced Melting’
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, I've come to the same conclusion. After growing bamboo, it was my first idea, too, but algae is unbeatable for rate of growth. Here in Florida, we could grow millions of metric tons easily. The food could be food waste and sewage.
The plans I remember reading about (5 or so years ago) were about building large scale raceway ponds out in AZ, NM and that area as you had the ideal sun, cheap land, and it could be dried naturally further reducing energy consumption. I've also read a bit about them trying to use it for animal feed but I never could get the full story on that.
> animal feed
Isn't that going to release the carbon?
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#73This is why big countries suck. They are slow to change and a wrong move is horribly damaging. Look at the US or China, no matter how I or all my countrymen live in Sweden it won't really matter if climate change deniers get in charge in the US for example. I just think it's so sad to see everything go to shit due to some greedy assholes that won't invest in solutions that are effective AND sustainable. I plan to bec…
It would be stupid to crash our economy and then find out that the "solutions" didn't work. Or that we come up with technological fix to the problem. Or that that whole thing was just a ploy by leftists to seize power.
Anyhow, if you expect 7 billion people to do anything in regards to climate change, don't hold your breath.
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#74What's the best way to profit from rising sea levels? Investing in land that's higher up in our nearby coastal cities?
I wouldn't mess with real estate speculation. The best route would be to look into ways to profit from protracted regional conflicts, massive (forced) dislocations of whole populations, famine, despair and hopelessness, generally.
Because those are slated to be (and according to some measures, already are in certain areas) the primary impacts of climate change, for the geographically unlucky.
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#76Grow bamboo. Harvest it. Bury it. That's the sort of thing we have to start thinking about.
Burying bamboo or other biomass is not a particularly reliable or effective form of carbon sequestration. (Anywhere you bury it, it will decompose and most of the C02 removed from the atmosphere will wind up as CH4 + CO2.) Carbon sequestration is a very active area of research, but for the most part, you're looking at injecting liquid C02 or water with a very large amount of dissolved C02 into deep reservoirs. Ideall…
Diamonds. Make all of it into diamonds.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you mean bullshitting. But it is you who are doing that, unfortunately.
Don't feed the troll, it will just encourage more of the same behavior.
I'm tired of the "climate change is settled science" bit, okay--for centuries, people believed the sun revolved around the earth and nobody was allowed to question that.
The answer to speech you don't like is more speech, not censorship. And I'm with the poster who talked about "bullshitting" because climate change has a lot of the smells of that very thing.
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#78This is why big countries suck. They are slow to change and a wrong move is horribly damaging. Look at the US or China, no matter how I or all my countrymen live in Sweden it won't really matter if climate change deniers get in charge in the US for example. I just think it's so sad to see everything go to shit due to some greedy assholes that won't invest in solutions that are effective AND sustainable. I plan to bec…
It would be stupid to crash our economy and then find out that the "solutions" didn't work. Or that we come up with technological fix to the problem. Or that that whole thing was just a ploy by leftists to seize power. Anyhow, if you expect 7 billion people to do anything in regards to climate change, don't hold your breath.
> Anyhow, if you expect 7 billion people to do anything in regards to climate change, don't hold your breath.
Except that China is halting construction on 20+ coal plants. And deploying renewables faster than any other country. And putting in place heavy subsidies for electric vehicles. Chinese citizens overwhelmingly support renewables and the cost associated with it:
https://cleantechnica.com/2016/09/29/china-cities-overwhelmi...
Americans? One presidential candidate wants more fracking, the other one thinks China invented climate change, and everyone else is oblivious in their SUV on their way to Starbucks.
One might argue its easier for China to evolve to a non-carbon economy because their citizens haven't tasted the decadence Americans have of a carbon-intensive lifestyle; regardless, China is going above and beyond what the US has ever considered for climate change policy, and drag us Americans along for the ride. Thanks China?
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#79This is why big countries suck. They are slow to change and a wrong move is horribly damaging. Look at the US or China, no matter how I or all my countrymen live in Sweden it won't really matter if climate change deniers get in charge in the US for example. I just think it's so sad to see everything go to shit due to some greedy assholes that won't invest in solutions that are effective AND sustainable. I plan to bec…
It would be stupid to crash our economy and then find out that the "solutions" didn't work. Or that we come up with technological fix to the problem. Or that that whole thing was just a ploy by leftists to seize power. Anyhow, if you expect 7 billion people to do anything in regards to climate change, don't hold your breath.
Ill believe climate change when the scientists stop annoying me. Maybe they wont because it's bullshit.
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#80This is why big countries suck. They are slow to change and a wrong move is horribly damaging. Look at the US or China, no matter how I or all my countrymen live in Sweden it won't really matter if climate change deniers get in charge in the US for example. I just think it's so sad to see everything go to shit due to some greedy assholes that won't invest in solutions that are effective AND sustainable. I plan to bec…
I think big countries should be made to pay the smaller ones affected by climate change. We weren't the ones that caused it but will be made to suffer the most because of it(rising tides, effects on the ocean which we depend on for our food source, lack of rainfall). We are very much seeing the effects already!
Yeah, I'm going to believe it when I see it.
USA still haven't even paid what it owes to Nicaragua for fucking it up.
The US also owes about 1.3 billion to the UN due to non-payments.