Tomorrow I'm going to a talk about engineering trees that store CO2 better and produce more durable wood. I don't care what your politics are, that's nifty AF. There's a lot of room for mad scientists in this field
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Sometimes I feel guilty for ragging on the GND/Greta/various global warming virtue signals So let me say this, sincerely: I think this is a crazy good time to consider getting into climate science, or chemistry/biology/materials science w/ a focus on climate change mitigation
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Also lots of room for people who want to do relationship-building work with people living very different lives from the typical westerner, or study some of the most stunning natural environments on the planet...https://www.coolearth.org
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If you really, *really* want to make ground, study the battery/energy storage problem. A *lot* of the sub-problems re: emissions are resolved with lighter, smaller batteries. If you also want to help animals, lab meat/"clean meat" is a project begging for more brilliant minds
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There's just a whole lot of work to be done concerning utterly fascinating natural phenomena and novel technologies. For the right people, it's going to be so FUN! And *everyone* is looking for promising projects to fund — moonshots too. A new Bell Labs could rise out of this
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Not a scientific sample, but I’ve met a lot of PhD researchers here on the coast (marine biology with climate change focus)seriously disillusioned at the glut of competition, lack of opportunity, and constant pressure to frame every potential study to fit funding sources.
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this seems to be one of the central challenges; a lot of these projects involve extremely high overhead costs and no guarantee that they'll generate a *marketable* solution cleaner energy, better batteries, and ethical meat are all very possible, but feasibility ≠ funding
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Couldn't agree more. There's a reason I've put so much focus on making things tangential to this my career. It's frustrating though, to see climate change be just a political fight. The real risks are completely missed and understated while people fearmonger.
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What's so frustrating about them is they make it so much harder to advocate in the field. It's like that NYT from a few years ago that even advocates were saying was full of lies, but ok because it might scare people into action. As if they weren't broadcasting in the clear.
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We desperately need smart, measured people pushing forward innovation as the Tier 1 solution to the problem. Uncoupling environmental conservatism from Marxist ideology has got to be a top priority if any of the problems are going to be solved.
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Won't find global solutions easily. Each region needs to iterate a tonne to find weird solutions that work for them. But yes, key is it requires actual work rather than lobbying. If 1% of people attending strikes took this path we'd find answers a lot sooner than relying on gov
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