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| renewables become more affordable than coal and nuclear

And yet emissions keep climbing, because capitalism requires growth and demands deregulation.

| Excess energy can be dumped in to carbon sequestration

There is literally no scalable strategy for this, and no serious combination of strategies. Really. Nobody who actually studies this (who's not also trying to profit) thinks there is. Do the math on the world economy continuing to double every <20 years. Or maybe check out the book I shared above, it's really very good.

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