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>> China struggled and, I think, gave up, so what chance have we got? However I
>> do believe that long term, this is going to be a major problem for the
>> world.
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It is, and it is never going to be solved because people want to have their cake and eat it. Increased economic prosperity increases our carbon footprint and shortens the time the planet will be habitable for the human race. Yet people who urge us all to P in the wind by not leaving our fridge door open still want their internet (Carbon footprint equivalent to the aircraft industry), their iphones and Alexas, transport that can get from one end of the country to the other in hours and all the other trappings of a comfortable life.
It doesn't bother me because I'm too old to be effected and we have no offspring, but those who are should face up to the fact that any solution is going to be extremely painful (For everybody, not just someone whose car uses more petrol than yours) and many of the things that are now regarded as basic human rights are going to have to go. And that includes the right to reproduce at will.
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