Bill Gates Wants To Fire Preemptive Strike Against The Machines

We're gonna pollute anyways. It's gonna get a lot worse than better.

Externalized costs need to be quantified before people are roused into feeling what they already know is lost.

From that feeling, then maybe action?

 

Harmful emissions went consistently down until we put the pedal to the metal during the 90s.

Elimination of the speed limit and crazy cheap gas from Saudi Arabia brought an SUV craze that undid a lot of the work the EPA strove for during the 70s. SOx and NOx emissions have been greatly reduced by getting off of diesel though.

But that's beside the point. CO2 emissions goes beyond American air quality and affects levels of immense scale to the point where we need supercomputers to calculate a still limited data set.

Someone can correct me on this, but the CFCs that we sprayed in the 80s/90s are still circulating around the global and destroying ozone. It didn't all just evaporate a couple years later when the industrial world banned its production.

So for something like CO2, it'll be several years from now before we see the fully effects from polluting today and the effects we're seeing today has been damage combined with **** we're doing right now.

I guess small victories are baby steps for optimism...

Unless you got baby hands. Then they're the biggest accomplishments in the (ongoing?) History of Mankind.

 

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