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Building roads across a wilderness to haul stuff to extract oil to heat the atmosphere to make money seems kind of insane. But the pics were good. I just wish we humans took better care of things.

I wonder if airships would be a better solution in terms of lift capacity?

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Veritasium posted a video summarising the state of airships ~10 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjBgEkbnX2I

I don't think the average (or even a minority of HN readers) realize how much they'd have to give up if we'd stop.

The difficult question is how much will we have to give up if we don't?

The more difficult question is who gets to decide.

Even if no identifiable person gets to decide, the climate may force a whole series of individual decisions. Or a wildfire decides for you.

I think the more salient question is WHO will have to give WHAT up if we don't stop?

I assume most HN readers work in IT with decent salaries, putting us in the 90th+ percentile globally. We'll still be drinking wine in our off-grid A/C'd homes when the rest of the world suffers.

Hard stop is practically impossible, but a transition is something people have been talking about for years, and is finally starting to happen as the fraction of new cars sold that are EVs rises.

And that it would degrade our ability to defend ourselves to the point that someone else would come here and take it.

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