Ask HN: How do we save the planet?

阿新 • • 發佈：2018-12-28

So, lately I find that I can't really sleep when I read news about how the planet will probably be unlivable within 100 years (https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-climate-will-warm-by-7-degrees-by-2100-2018-10) if not even sooner than that because of unknown factors. Frankly this post is more me trying to find some kind of hope that this is a solvable problem, one day... And I'm not finding it around much anymore. Even moonshot projects are worth entertaining, because right now I don't think it's possible to argue that climate change isn't the single biggest threat we face as a species.

So: we've all fucked it up. How do we make sure humanity survives the next hundred years?

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