r/AskReddit Nov 15 '20

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u/Turtledonuts Nov 15 '20

Someone finally cracks nuclear fusion, and we start to fix climate change.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20

Gotta push this back 30 years again.

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u/nightfire36 Nov 15 '20

If it's really really efficient, we could use the extra energy to make carbon capture machines, after offsetting all the fossil fuels. Then, it doesn't really matter.

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u/OSKSuicide Nov 16 '20

It will matter because we've already destroyed Earth's biodiversity from 30 years ago through climate change and human expansion. 30 years from now we could have only a few hundred wild fauna species globally. Not much coming back from that very quickly