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It seems a lot of the debate centers around whether climate change is happening, or whether it's manmade or a natural cycle.

But assuming it IS happening and it IS because of us, what exactly would the solution be?

Enact policies to curb carbon emissions and encourage the development of alternative energy sources (aside: why do all you global warming hippies geek over solar and wind and not suggest the obvious pragmatic tech of nuclear power?)? Do we force other countries to do the same? Go to war over it?

It seems a lot of the debate centers around whether climate change is happening, or whether it's manmade or a natural cycle. But assuming it IS happening and it IS because of us, what exactly would the solution be? Enact policies to curb carbon emissions and encourage the development of alternative energy sources (aside: why do all you global warming hippies geek over solar and wind and not suggest the obvious pragmatic tech of nuclear power?)? Do we force other countries to do the same? Go to war over it?

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I don't get the preoccupation with nuclear energy... put a fair price on carbon and see how the market generates power. Nuclear would probably lose, but I couldn't care either way.

Or self-hating westerners and fellow white people devising another way to ruin the west out of fairness to the rest of the world?

Wealthy countries generally have an advantage at the negotiating table, so it'll probably be the poor countries getting a raw deal as usual.

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So by put a price on carbon you mean institute a credit system, where you have to pay for your institution. But what authority imposes this system on wealthy and poor countries alike? Do we have one world government in this scenario?

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A one-world government sounds like science fiction to me - more likely every country would implement it's own solutions to meet a standard acceptable to the international community (or its more powerful members).

I have serious doubts about whether our current political systems are capable of doing that.

A realistic one-world government might be the US forcefully dominating everyone else, but that probably wouldn't help, as the current US political system is too corrupted by corporations to be able to act on global warming.

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So is all this manmade climate change stuff you post constantly just a giant blackpill for you? Why concern yourself with it if it's bound to happen and we can't stop it? It's like worrying about the inevitable heat death of the universe.