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You nailed down the issues that surround the topic of climate change very well. I wish there were more people that would consider the points you mentioned.

About the proposed actions to take: I think we need to bet even more heavily on nuclear fusion. It seems to be the only thing that could make carbon extraction sting less.

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> nuclear fusion.

Fully agree.

But the meme of nuclear fusion has been around for nearly 50 years, yet nowhere close for practical utilization due to a lot of unseen technical problems.

I can only hope that we'll be a bit more lucky this time. And that the projects won't be ruined due to political struggles.

While I would totally love to see nuclear fusion be an option, I am afraid the timeline simply does not fit the challenge. Realistically, we won't be able to have nuclear fusion production-ready under less than 20 years, and most probably ~40 years.

If we do nothing in the next 20 years, it's not 2 degrees we are looking at, but 4+ degrees. The difference will be millions vs billions of deaths.

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