“I’m saying that the instinct to judge coming up with a magic technology to allow economic growth and the current state of life while fixing climate change as more likely than global coordination to use existing technology in more sustainable ways feels techno-utopian to me.”
So, the author was saying that s/he thinks we are more likely to solve climate change by global coordination with zero technological progress than we are through continued economic growth and technological progress. I argued that this wasn’t true. This isn’t a false dichotomy, I was discussing the dichotomy explicitly made by the author in the first place.
My claim is that without technological progress in electricity, industry and transport we are extremely unlikely to solve climate change, which is the point that luke kemp seems to disagree with.
Ah. Yes, that makes sense. And it seems pretty clear that I don’t disagree with you on the factual question of what is likely to work, but I also don’t know what Luke thinks other than what he wrote in this paper, and I was confused about why it was being brought up.
Hi David, I was arguing against this point:
“I’m saying that the instinct to judge coming up with a magic technology to allow economic growth and the current state of life while fixing climate change as more likely than global coordination to use existing technology in more sustainable ways feels techno-utopian to me.”
So, the author was saying that s/he thinks we are more likely to solve climate change by global coordination with zero technological progress than we are through continued economic growth and technological progress. I argued that this wasn’t true. This isn’t a false dichotomy, I was discussing the dichotomy explicitly made by the author in the first place.
My claim is that without technological progress in electricity, industry and transport we are extremely unlikely to solve climate change, which is the point that luke kemp seems to disagree with.
Ah. Yes, that makes sense. And it seems pretty clear that I don’t disagree with you on the factual question of what is likely to work, but I also don’t know what Luke thinks other than what he wrote in this paper, and I was confused about why it was being brought up.