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"We don't need to research any more potential solutions to this existential problem we're facing" is certainly a take.

I don't say we shouldn't do research. What I do say is that we do have all the technology we need. And more importantly, we don't have the time to wait for some future technology that potentially could solve all our problems. The climate disaster has already started (and this [0] is not "the new normal", this is just the beginning, a hint of what we should expect).

The only reason we are in this shithole is because of the lack of political will. It would have been comparable trivial to solve if we just had started 30 years ago when scientists started to yell about that it was getting urgent.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jun/24/europe-he...

We don't need new technology, it took France only about 20 years to replace it's coal and oil based electric generation with nuclear power generation (between 1976 and 2000).

Because of lack of political will in US and many European countries we continued to burn fuels to generate electric energy.

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...

Developing countries like China and India prioritized cheap coal power generation.

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