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But even if we do manage to automate away all of jobs, the climate emergency demands unimaginably labor intensive tasks for hundreds of years - jobs like relocating every coastal city inland, or caring for hundreds of millions of refugees.

Add to those: averting the exinctions of thousands of species, managing wave upon wave of zoonotic and insect-borne plagues, dealing with wildfires and tornados, etc.

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And geoengineering won't solve this: we've sunk a lot of heat into the oceans. It's gonna warm them up. That's gonna change the climate. It's not gonna be good. Heading this off doesn't just involve repealing thermodynamics - it also requires a time-machine.

But none of this stuff is insurmountable - it's just hard. We CAN do this stuff. If you were wringing your hands about unemployed truckers, good news! They've all got jobs moving thousands of cities inland!

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It's just (just!) a matter of reorienting our economy around preserving our planet and our species.

And yeah, that's hard, too - but if "the economy" can't be oriented to preserving our species, we need a different economy.

Period.

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