we really are entering a dangerous phase of the climate crisis - people are pivoting from "oh, it's not real" to "oh, we should just do X", where X is any of:<p>- try to create a nuclear reactor industry in countries that don't have one (spoiler: it takes decades, which is too long, people need to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions with existing quick-to-deploy technology like renewables)<p>- try to sell their magic beans, like "SMR", which don't exist<p>- try to sell their super magic beans, like fusion research, which even if someone made it work tomorrow, would take too long to deploy<p>- try to suggest that geo-engineering is a well-understood thing that we could/should do and other things are less important<p>climate change can be stopped in the next few decades with basically just existing technology - choosing to not do it <i>is a choice</i>, which I would think most people would disagree with, but isn't being offered as a choice, but as a fait accompli from the established interests who don't want their industries to fall while others rise, even if that is what is good for society as a whole.