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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I've always hated this comparison because the two problems are just not the same, at all. CFCs were nowhere near as ubiquitous as fossil hydrocarbons, and CFCs had an essentially drop-in replacement, which fossil fuels do not. There's no non-hydrocarbon fuel that we can just replace for coal, natural gas, gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, etc. None that I'm aware of, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Shame we haven't had an entire century to deal with the problem.

At least we're taking it seriously, and all agree that it's real.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If we cared at all about solving the problem, a lot more work would have been spent on developing hybrids/fuel cells, electric vehicles, electrolytic Hydrogen and renewable energy like solar.

We (chemists) can produce fossil fuels using renewable Hydrogen and a Carbon rich feedstock. Hell the nazis were doing it because of supply issues. Our excuse is that it is harder to do that than it is to drill for oil not that we cant do it.

We are limited by the amount of renewable energy which again, isnt being ramped up as fast as it could be and needs to be for lack of economic and political willpower.