• doctorcrimson@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    Okay well the reality is people have been throwing water on the floor for 20 years and you don’t want us to clean it up.

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      7 months ago

      No.

      People have been throwing water on the floor for 200 years now, since the start of the industrial revolution, and right now a huge hose is connected to an enormous water tap and that hose dumps all the water straight on the floor.

      You want to take a mop on that, I say that the mop is make ng it worse, because I need you to help me get rid of that hose.

      Once the hose is gone, please by all means, mop away, we will need it, I fully agree. But while that hose is dumping water, I need you ) that is, the entire world) to first focus on stopping the water flow.

      Edit: and just so you understand the severity of the situation: even if we spend 5-70% of the worlds energy budget on mopping 24/7, we’ll likely be mopping for the next CENTURIES to get rid of all the extra CO2 we dumped for the past 200 years.