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If you hit electricity and heat production, transportation, and buildings, you'll be halfway done. Industry is interesting. What's easy will be done fast, but what's hard is really hard (blast furnaces etc). I suspect ag and forestry is the hardest.
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The three big motives I see among people who get climate-active are: 1. Being against capitalism, billionaires/right-wing politics (70%) 2. Having a very strong social service/justice orientation (20%) 3. Being interested in technology of surviving into the anthropocene (10%)
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If you're in category 1, it's 50-50 whether you're part of the problem or the solution If you're in category 2, you're part of the solution, but to sideshow problems (tough to hear but true) If you're in category 3, you have a shot at being a serious part of the solution
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Technology really is the only way out. Nothing else acts fast enough. If you're trying to start some sort of religion of post-capitalist sustainable permaculture, good for you, but religions take centuries to establish, not decades.
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My planning scenario: we've already effectively signed up for some significant transient climate change >1.5, to let significant populations die (10x covid toll at least), and take on a tech-stack transformation to unknown-unknown state equivalent to terraforming.
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This is a max-likelihood prediction/bet. Not a desired scenario. I try not to waste time on wishful thinking about how the consciousness of 7 billion people might get transformed fast enough to open up weird options. In the time-frame of relevance, people aren't going to "change"
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So things are going to get acutely bad for a couple of decades (think perma-Covid x 3), starting in the late 2020s/early 2030s probably, completely restructuring civilization. So working with shallow layers like politics and corporations is sort of irrelevant.
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Does corporations being “shallow layers” mean that real/relevant contribution to reductions comes largely from companies that don’t exist today?
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I mean if you invent a technology to replace airline fuel with renewables, that will be a big deal and more important than whether or not airlines survive... in the future, maybe there will be no airlines and it will all be autonomous planes that own themselves on the blockchain