There are *so many* technologies for pulling CO2 from the air. At least some of these will scale and be profitable, and we've barely even started working on the problem, so the sky's the limit. Here's a new one:https://youtu.be/ejW4f6liOS8?t=4497 …
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+ sip your liquids through a rapidly disintegrating tube of paper
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Don't you need both? I mean... not the "complain" part, but to both adjust lifestyles to use fewer resources, AND work on tech? It's really hard to justify "tech will solve this eventually" when humanity pumps more CO2 year over year due to increasing demand.
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If you can move to lower CO2 producing power sources along with effective and affordable carbon capture, you don’t necessarily need to reduce actual energy use.
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The issue is people who prop up technological advancements to sidestep any responsibility for actual political change in order to protect their laissez-faire ideals. Would it be nice if the solution was purely technological? Sure. Should we rely on that option? I don't think so.
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Private markets are historically very bad at allocating capital towards R&D to create new technologies, especially so in an area where the “customer” is everyone & no-one — we all need the planet to stay so habitable but no (market oriented) nation wants to be the one to pay.
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e.g., silicon revolution came directly out of WW2 research into radar, signals intelligence, countermeasures, bomb targeting, etc. Markets have been great at major refinements, but not at all at funding the fundamental R&D. Action from “functionaries” will play a decisive role.
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People are so desperate they can imagine the end of the world but can't imagine the end of capitalism
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I'm hopeful about tech solutions. But it's solving a symptom of a problem, which is a symptom of another problem and so on. We're constantly adapting and reacting to problems of our own creation. There is merit in reducing consumption and waste too.
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Humans don’t solve problems they argue over whose fault it was.
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And don't forget that this time the entire world has to do it "the Google way". It seems that the "no one ever got promoted for fixing the existing system" maxim somehow got leaked into the physical technology.pic.twitter.com/nVR5MCDoPi
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