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ErgonWolf

@quinn I remember the first push about climate change was in the early 1970s. So we've known for 50 years.

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MarjorieR

@c_merriweather @ErgonWolf @quinn not quite correct. Limits to Growth largely didn't figure in climate change triggered by our production of green house gases.
It did demonstrate unlimited economic and population growth was impossible and would actual go into reverse as we exhausted resources, such as oil and minerals.
While some people had worked out that burning oil and coal produced GHGs and led warming temperatures back in the 19th century the wider appreciation (many of us still haven't got it) that we would soon be pushing the limits due to green house gases raising global temperatures to a degree that was environmentally significantly came a little later and after Limits to Growth was published.
Limits to Growth did discuss pollution, but it was concerned with a wide range of pollutants and in its BAU scenario it projected pollution and in particular CO2 as a solvable problem (the thinking was we would switch to nuclear energy for power) while at the same time foreseeing an exhaustion of non-renewable resources as being the main limiting factor.

@c_merriweather @ErgonWolf @quinn not quite correct. Limits to Growth largely didn't figure in climate change triggered by our production of green house gases.
It did demonstrate unlimited economic and population growth was impossible and would actual go into reverse as we exhausted resources, such as oil and minerals.
While some people had worked out that burning oil and coal produced GHGs and led warming temperatures back in the 19th century the wider appreciation (many of us still haven't got...

Quinn Norton

@ErgonWolf not really? we've known it was a problem since the 1800s, but the practical solutions are mostly in the last 20 years. solar/battery/wind etc hasn't been in a position to scale until very recently.

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