lol i was gonna follow up w a joke but then realized it wasnt gonna be worth it
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Replying to @DanielleFong @powerbottomdad1
idk maybe we should be able to laugh at it cause the situation is pretty hopeless
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Replying to @DanielleFong
really? i am genuinely an optimist here but ur prolly way closer to the details than me
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Replying to @powerbottomdad1
the entire economical / technological trajectory of things and just lack of combined effort that is effective enough means that without some massively heroic effort and probably some miracles, carbon emission sequestration efforts will whiff
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Replying to @DanielleFong @powerbottomdad1
it's actual political will that's needed because there are simply so many sectors effected and it's really hard to justify turning off a coal or gas plant without it we're supposed to do something like this: (image source http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ ) and we're... not.pic.twitter.com/ue0aW82qQi
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Replying to @DanielleFong @powerbottomdad1
what that means practically for the planet is, you know, debatable, up to the science, there are predictions of course, but what everything always misses is the feedback loops, both positive and negative. but really the many examples of what we're seeing from what's happening is
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Replying to @DanielleFong @powerbottomdad1
basically we under estimate the feedback loop magnitude. there's all kinds of stuff that gets worse by a lot. and it's going to have massive effects, perhaps with many knock on social effects. nobody is totally insulated from that, but if you are rich maybe you cope,
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Replying to @DanielleFong
yeah. i guess i'm just banking on multiple breakthroughs, for sure things look bad at present day tho
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Replying to @powerbottomdad1
what you haven't seen is dozens of breakthroughs get killed by the reality of raising multiple funding rounds through multiple classes of stakeholders, none of which know what they want
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you can describe the main problem as the sort of impedance mismatch between startups and VC's, corporations, energy markets, the media, etc. but like, there are so many even seemingly random things that kill startups! exit for physical tech is default expensive,
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