Can we recover from human caused climate change?

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I would like Alex K's opinion on whether ITER will work. My forum also had a post-doc nuclear physicist but myself I have absolutely no idea and nor would I. Even with a low chance of it working I still think it's important to pile money into to give it maximum chance of success though.

Nuclear fusion is an engineering problem, not a physics one. The physics is sound.
ITER is a tokamak design, one of the easiest to design, but not the most efficient.
I fully expect the Stellarator design to overtake the tokamak in a few decades.
But ITER is, as far as we are concerned, the first stepping stone... the first that is actually designed to produce more energy than that which has to be poured into it.
Not yet designed to extract that energy and dump it on the grid... but to show that such should be possible.

If it does work though then I don't see the problem of it being generated in a single place as being a problem. We already have Tesla cars in mass production and a whole infrastructure built for shipping an oil that could be harnessed for transporting fuel cells.

I know we have Teslas and Nissan Leafs (or is it Leaves? ), but their range is quite limited when compared with an equivalent gasoline or diesel powered car. They're improving... there is hope in that direction.
And it's good to see major manufacturers, like Nissan, hopping on that wagon.

The main problem I see is the short-sightedness of those in power and how our systems reward that.

aye.
Short sightedness...