Trying to red pill some liberal friends who aren't keen on Biden but think Trump wasn't great for the environment especially with "global warming's impending doom". So... title?
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Unfortunately I made the mistake of not archiving resources over the years, but with some effort you should be able to verify the following.
If global warming were a significant issue, then we would be pushing for nuclear power and nuclear fusion.
Nuclear fusion will take decades at current pace (less with significant funding that isn't occurring), but once completed we will have unlimited green energy by today's standards.
This implies that any potential damage caused by global warming will be reversible at scale.
We already have prototypes for:
Plants/fungi that consume plastics and hence take care of the much more significant threat that is pollution (which nobody with half a brain is going to argue)
Extraction of atmospheric CO2 (which may or may not be a good idea and demands significant research into the real impact of CO2)
Data processing: With nuclear fusion we'd be able to build supercomputers that will make Moore's law look like a joke. This implies climate models that will enable full control over weather and environment.
Now with nuclear fusion being a little while into the future the most efficient way to curb any climate and pollution issues are nuclear power plants.
They are the most efficient and environmentally friendly way to produce energy as of today, because they use the least amount of surface area per output. All "green" forms of energy annihilate entire ecosystems at costs (environmental and economical) significantly higher than nuclear fission.
The only issue with that would be nuclear waste, which with nuclear fusion will become a non-issue (worst case shoot the junk into the sun, which will become viable once synthesizing materials ad absurdum becomes economical through fusion).
The fact that nobody is pushing for nuclear power and nuclear fusion hence concludes that there is no threat to the planet, because none of the above is a secret for anybody following the real science, as opposed to political narratives.
All of the above ignores the highly questionable flip-flop from "global cooling" to "global warming" to "climate change" whenever the weather doesn't play along with the constructed narrative.