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He's founded tesla and SolarCity with that objective in mind and almost went bankrupt in the process...

My point was more around addressing global warming from the perspective of mitigation rather than prevention. There seems to be a lot of reports that indicate our opportunity for preventing global warming has passed or will soon pass[0][1][2]. So if that's the case, it seems like it would be pretty important to work on solutions to survive the effects of global warming instead.

0. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9988890...

1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/climate...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_climate_change#Current...

I've been seeing studies since the release of the Inconvenient Truth claiming that the point of no return has been reached.

I don't doubt climate change, but I'm very skeptical of studies positing a slippery slope of catastrophic proportions. It's true we don't know the cascading effects of increased CO2 and methane emissions, but that doesn't mean it the unknown is apocalyptic.

And hey - maybe we won't all die!

Humanity could use some thinning out.

Unfortunately we'll take a lot of innocent fora/fauna down as well.

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