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What does/could this mean? Does it mean that the tech approach to climate change will work out? aka keep polluting as normal, but just invent some new tech to fix the problems we're creating?
If fusion can be made to work that would open path towards effectively unlimited clean energy in the future. I don't know how much that will help with climate change in the near term though since we have a fairly short window of around a decade, and it's highly unlikely fusion could be made to work at scale in that time frame. So, we definitely can't keep polluting as normal.
I think the plan is gonna be to keep on polluting:
"Climate change is suppose to affect poor countries first. I hate poor countries and I want to see them suffer. So I'll just grab some popcorn and watch climate change. Then when it starts affecting my rich country, i'll either fly to mars or use all the fusion reactors to suck co2 out of the air"
That's how most people in the west expected things to play out. Turns out that it's not just poor countries that are getting hit by climate disasters though. However, the fact that we do need to deal with climate change does not detract from the value of having limitless clean energy that fusion can offer.
Your argument that developing this technology is somehow a negative because people will keep polluting is utter nonsense It's pretty clear that we're going to keep polluting regardless unless drastic societal changes happen. The reason we can't stop polluting is because our society is based around consumerism and our economy is based on growth. Until capitalism is abolished this problem cannot be solved. Technology has absolutely nothing to do with this.