• truxnell@aussie.zone
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    11 hours ago

    I do joke a lol, but things in many areas are so much better than 30-50 years ago and considering Brits in WW II had to turn out all their lights to hinder German bombings - most of us are being peddled fear by the media and it’s not THAT bad.

    Where did you get the climate hope bit? last articles I glazed over were ‘we missed 1.5 deg target and instead put the foot on the pedal to make it faster’ and ‘climate migrations coming and mass famine’.

    Sounder doomerism to me but I don’t really have a good source to be optimistic at all.

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      3 hours ago

      Not to mention each message to chatGPT burns the equivalent of a water bottle worth of water.

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      8 hours ago

      In short, solar prices are declining exponentially and deployment is growing exponentially. There are even companies claiming to be able to make efuels from air using solar cheaper than fossil fuels by the end of the decade.

      Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie is a good book if you want to read something optimistic.

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        6 hours ago

        Thanks for this. I haven’t been letting it get me down in the past, but having two kids can certainty start making me question what the heck their future will look like