The only way I see to a path to salvation is a huge pandemic or world war

Good news! The odds are looking pretty high for both of those!

Carbon taxes fix the problem of using energy for dumb things. Climate change isn't caused by us using energy, it's caused by the fact that carbon pollution is free.

I need some anon to write me a virus that will wipe out all datacenters in one go, something that will irrevocably fry all enterprise hardware beyond repair. Let's start over, with decent trust busting and without the plastic this time.

(edit: I guess it's not entirely clear but I'm expecting such a virus to hit the reset button on civilisation. Mass death, yes, but we won't fuck the world beyond being liveable.)

If the power is renewable, who cares how much it uses? Things are far from hopeless.

The only way I see to a path to salvation is a huge pandemic or world war, becausing nothing else will convince people

We had a pandemic already and war in Ukraine is raging on - and both only served right wing extremists to rise and ignore climate problems even harder. We are fucked. I don't give up hope but it's tiny

Necessity is the mother of invention, and new technology is only going to continue to use more and more energy. Conservation is not the answer.

Did you miss the memo that current AI is already using more power than everything we've managed to save with green energy in the last decade?

You got a source on that? Cause that sounds fake

Should i kill myself before all that unravels?

I keep saying, if Putin starts a nuclear war, we might save humanity. A nuclear winter will cool the planet. And with most of us dying of radiation poisoning, we won’t have the ability to start pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere. Yay!