<story><title>May is Earth&apos;s hottest on record</title><url>http://www.sciencealert.com/may-was-the-hottest-month-on-earth-since-records-began-says-nasa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>We live in a time where it is far easier to invent wild new technology to extract and sequester CO₂ from the atmosphere than it is to convince industry and individual to reduce the amount of CO₂ they contribute, let alone convincing people that a problem actually exists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsder</author><text>It is significantly easier to engineer a solution for a single, large (generally industrial) pollution source than a billion small pollution sources for both technical and political reasons.&lt;p&gt;So, for example, electric cars are incredibly useful &lt;i&gt;even if they have the same carbon footprint as combustion cars&lt;/i&gt; simply because they move the pollution source to a single point (the power plant).&lt;p&gt;In addition, there is not a lot that an individual can do that will dramatically affect his carbon footprint.  Neighborhoods don&amp;#x27;t magically become walkable or bikeable.  Businesses don&amp;#x27;t magically implement work-from-home because a low-level employee wills it (see: Yahoo).&lt;p&gt;Most carbon reducing solutions require buy-in from a group of people, and that takes forever, if you can get them to agree at all.</text></comment>
<story><title>May is Earth&apos;s hottest on record</title><url>http://www.sciencealert.com/may-was-the-hottest-month-on-earth-since-records-began-says-nasa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>We live in a time where it is far easier to invent wild new technology to extract and sequester CO₂ from the atmosphere than it is to convince industry and individual to reduce the amount of CO₂ they contribute, let alone convincing people that a problem actually exists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atmosx</author><text>&amp;gt; let alone convincing people that a problem actually exists.&lt;p&gt;I love this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=lPgZfhnCAdI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=lPgZfhnCAdI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s my favourite episode of the daily show.</text></comment>