heres how I know; vietnam & australia didn't need the vaccine to do it, so whatever it is that caused the US to not be able to deal with the pandemic without the vaccine is also gonna make the US be unable to deal with the pandemic with the vaccine.

The lack of the vaccine isn't the problem, corruption is. It isn't a tech problem, it's a governance problem. The US is gonna have COVID for ever.

PS, the exact same thing applies for climate change. Ppl be like "oh climate change will be fixed once we invent the right tech". The thing is, we already have the tech to end climate change, we're just ruled by ppl who don't want to. We're fucked, and we're fucked forever, stop waiting for the ghost of albert einstein to solve your problems for you with a glass vial & recognize that anyone who tells you to is the enemy

  • Pezevenk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    yes we do. What do you think green energy is??

    Something that doesn't instantly solve climate change, because extracting and processing all the resources required to make the switch is still extremely damaging, and will still not solve the CO2 emissions because of transportation problems.

    There are already whole ass countries that are carbon neutral

    Ah, yes, small and extremely rich northern European countries occasionally with the luxury of having geothermal energy, that pretend they are super green while simultaneously extract tons of oil (looking at you, Norway). For all their posturing, some of these countries (particularly Iceland and Norway) are actually very comparable to the US in terms of per capita emissions. It's really quite shitty. The green posturing of some EU countries is such a joke when they wag their fingers at countries poorer or more "evil" in the mind of Europeans than them despite the fact that they have less emissions per capita than them in the same breath.

    kill the liberal in your head who insists that better things aren’t possible & we have to just sit on our hands and wait for a scientist to invent a solution to the problem

    You're the one who seems to think that the solution to climate change is technological lol, the difference is that you seem to think the technology is already there, whereas the truth is that it's not here and it won't be here any time soon, if nothing changes in the overall structure of the economy and consumption patterns. I never said better things aren't possible, shifting to green energy will definitely be better and a good first step but it really isn't an end all be all solution, deeper changes have to happen.