I'm trying to find a good way to articulate how stupid and dangerous this attitude is that you see from enlightened centrists - that climate change is real, but we don't have to do anything drastic (i.e. costly) this moment because we'll "innovate our way out of it" because "we've always done it."
This can sound true-ish because of past existential crises that were resolved through technological innovations, for example, World War II and the Space Race. But what is missing is the urgency that's actually needed to do anything meaningful. It's like if FDR said "we need to defeat the Nazis but that costs too much, here's my plan for defeating half of the Nazis over the next 50 years" or if JFK said "we're going to put a man on the moon by 2010".
Also, since an actual solution would require a great deal of global cooperation and coordination, I don't think there's any scenario where the US is capable of addressing climate change in any meaningful way.
there'll only ever be enough resources on mars to support like, 10 people
and all of those resources will have to be flown in from earth lul
Look at Dubai. The rich have no fucking street sense, at all. They literally think every one of them is going to live safe in their little bunkers and party while the poors suffer and die on the surface.
True but at least even Dubai is part of plant earth, and theoretically could be turned into green space at some point in the future
Mars will always be Mars, and nothing will ever grow there
Theoretically it could but the rich egoists can't even get running water because that would be socialism.
They can't even work properly on earth, they sure as hell won't make it on mars, but that won't stop them from killing countless trying.