In addition to actual reporting, the NYT creates newslike ads for the fossil fuels industry. This results in disproportionate attention on high-risk approaches that involve anything other than phasing out fossil fuel use.

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Delusional, just insane.

Technology will not save us, but guillotines will.

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Guillotines are technology, laser guillotines are what we should be developing.

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Global warming is nothing but a math equation at the end of the day. Change the input value, change the result.

The real problem is what you do with all the snakes after they eat the mice.

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It’s a bit more than a math equation; things like how much ice there is are meaningfully path dependent. Just dropping CO2 concentrations won’t get us back the world we had.

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That’s just another part of the equation.

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Earth isnt a machine, we cant just fix it like a broken machine. Earth is a body with a fever due to CO2 intoxication. We need to let Earth lash itself back into wellbeing, without our invasive engripments.

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