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>If you think society can adapt and a reasonable reduction of CO2 over time is the best approach using market forces, then for example

Then for example you might be a flat earther too. We've been trying that for past two decades and it's an epic failure.

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Denying the climate is changing due to human impact is objectively wrong, like being a flat earther. People have generally accepted this now.

Arguments about what to do about it, or if it is a 'big deal', are subjective ones- so there is no right or wrong in most cases.

Other than the success of electric cars, solar and wind energy. Making use of carbon taxes and funding carbon sequestration efforts can also be incorporated. Removing barriers to building nuclear plants and pumping more funding into fusion research would also help. What will the next couple of decades look like?

None of those were caused by market forces.

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