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What I'm observing is that almost nobody - other than perhaps Elon Musk - is thinking clearly about the situation we are in. Allow me to explain. Each dollar in the global economy emits (on average) 260 grams of CO2. If we spent $8000 each per year, we would have sustainability.
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You’re way overindexed on charismatic public figures and media discourses. I know like a dozen people who think about this at a more sophisticated level than this. They are invisible in public and it doesn’t matter because the levers they’re working to push are all backend.
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Charismatic big-man messianism has a part to play, but if you overweight it you just get messianic theaters that are actually toxic past a point. You just rile up low-value populist energy that actually gets in the way demanding plastic-straw bans.
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Nothing works. Musk is a straw in a hurricane, regardless of his level of realism. The symbolic action of landing on Mars may well cause a moment of global reflection, perhaps trigging some real change, but then he'll hit "9/12" and life will go on. But nobody has any real plan.
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