Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?

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Post by thewhitetulip » Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 6:04 AM UTC

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #454

thewhitetulip wrote: post #415

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I totally understand and agree. But we can't afford to not do something. Imagine if everyone planted a tree in a pot in their homes. It isn't about the 1w electricity I used from Solar, it is a momentum. Slowly, 1million people will use solar and it'll be 1 million watt electricity! It is in the scale

Yes, but 1MW is one millionth of the problem. Its very hard to get individual effort to matter. Its the industrial infrastructure that has to change?

That still doesn't mean that we do nothing at all

Re: Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?

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Post by growlist » Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 7:25 PM UTC

dotancohen wrote: post #505

growlist wrote: post #146

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I don't think it's the big technology companies - I doubt there's any large corporation the shuttering of which would not benefit the environment. I'd like to see more measures such as making a factory take its intake water downstream of where it discharges its waste water - you can bet that waste water will be clean. Otherwise we are reliant on the supposed goodwill of CEOs, which has manifestly failed to deliver th…

> I doubt there's any large corporation the shuttering of which would not benefit the environment. Tesla. Tesla has done more tangible work towards removing carbon from the atmosphere than probably any other entity in history.

> Tesla has done more tangible work towards removing carbon from the atmosphere than probably any other entity in history.

Think you might be over-egging it here - think about the shift from coal to less co2 intensive sources (e.g. gas) for power generation at national scale, which has happened in many countries. I suspect that's responsible for some fairly gargantuan savings in co2 compared to Tesla, which is still a small minority player.

Re: Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?

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Post by JoeAltmaier » Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 3:04 PM UTC

thewhitetulip wrote: post #521

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #454

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Yes, but 1MW is one millionth of the problem. Its very hard to get individual effort to matter. Its the industrial infrastructure that has to change?

That still doesn't mean that we do nothing at all

Which is the origin of the term 'eco-theatre'. Doing something, just to be doing something.

I know, everybody can't be a lobbyist etc.