Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

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

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.

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

I really think this is going to bloom in the next few years. A lot of companies have started putting people on this internally ("we want to spend $xM or xxM on this, where do we put the money?") just in the last year

this is encouraging, but it sounds more like budgeting for corporate vanity/pr projects (i.e. look at our triple bottom line) than a fundamental change in the economics afaict climate-friendly innovation is going to have to do it better *and* cheaper than status quo solutions