Sustainable energy alone will not save humanity from extinction events; temperature-controlling satellites and large-scale geo-engineering will be needed.

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• Cannot both be true

  Climate change is real and is not the civilisation-threatening disaster it was sold as, and the expensive policies bought nothing.

  Musk says sustainable energy alone will not save humanity from extinction events and that temperature-controlling satellites and large-scale geo-engineering will be needed. Cochrane says the thing was never civilisation-threatening and the expensive policies bought nothing. These are the two ends of the range of things a person can currently believe about the same climate.

• In tension with

  Climate change is at its core an energy problem, since burning fossil fuels for energy is the main driver of emissions.

  MacKay frames climate change as an energy problem, because burning fossil fuels for energy is what drives emissions. Musk says sustainable energy alone will not save humanity and that temperature-controlling satellites and large-scale geo-engineering will be needed. If the second is right, solving the energy problem is not the same as solving the climate problem.

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