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I hope China developing practical fusion technology before 2030 (if that's where we're heading) unironically saves the planet not just from fossil fuels but also The West (tm).
They could also do that in some other ways too but fusion power definitely feels like a super effective way to divorce the world from oil hegemonies and create a new industrial revolution with much less effort.
I 100% could be overly hope-posting and doing too much "technology will save us" style futurism but I like the prospects of a socialist country where Mao and Marx are respected academic sources being the first one to fusion. That feels like the best case scenario out of what we got.
((God fusion access as a pillar of belt and road. Fusion-Powered Iran. Fusion powered Vietnam. Fusion powered Burkina-faso. Your new 1st-2nd world is countries with fusion and countries without it and the one controlling that isn't the US lmao. I'm lathing it.))
I think it's a fool's game to say that better technology isn't better. If you're getting a knee replaced and it's an outpatient procedure you do in an afternoon that's a really cool and good thing.
The discussion had by learned people regarding climate change, to my understanding, is that we've crossed over the event horizon for catastrophic damage from climate change. It's in a similar vein to pollution in the ocean and the like. Something to the effect of suggesting if we had 0 emissions from today onward we'd still experience repercussions. I don't have a good citation nor the will to seek one out, unfortunately
So it's not like easily built housing, renewable energy powered technology, and easily grown food to sustain climate refugees while an effort is made to un-desert their home is a bad thing or an unworthy goal. I have a sneaking suspicion that "technology will save us" is a way of misunderstanding the situation the same way someone might think you're perfect to date if only you weren't a communist. I doubt every climate scientist is a Luddite. But they'd probably groan if you suggest carbon capture will reset the clock like it's a novel idea.
if fusion helps save human civilization from climate change i would suspect it's because it's being used to fuel massive desalination plants to deal with droughts and what not