Those are both just questions of energy (or really power, getting energy quickly)https://twitter.com/thunderjew1775/status/824975843998961669 …
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Like it's not impossible to synthesize oil. We do it all the time. You just use up so much energy doing it that it's not worth the cost
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There are science-fictional proposals for how to harness vastly more energy than we do now but they're science fictional
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Requiring a pretty hefty initial investment (solar satellites in orbit, giant turbines to harness the tides)
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None of it's impossible but it's all more fun to talk abt than the immediate problem of using less and that's what worries me
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This is why I strongly applaud the trends ppl worry about like "millennials don't want cars and houses"
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Big, large-scale lifestyle changes like everyone living closer together over time are good news
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Except when the concentration of people leaves a nation in the grip of rural unbelievers in things like, well, science...
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fossil fuel
2) desalination