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pure_temper posted...

i'm pretty confident. i'm not worried about Co2 PPM right now.

https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk

if it doesn't get solved soon, expect this number to be $500 million

then $1 billion

then $10 billion, etc

unlimited funding is available for startups and companies in this space and they're rushing into it. vertical farming is a great example of it and the efficiency gains from that will be huge.

I don't think throwing money at it is the answer, I think policy action as well as just fucking doing it is the answer

Here's a good article I just read: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/climate-change-green-vortex-america/619228/

The gist of it is that we improve these techs not by investing in them, but by implementing them and then improving by doing. Practice makes perfect, and all that.
R&D is useful too, but not as much as practice/incremental improvement.

The question is whether or not we're gonna smarten up in time to save ourselves from a big shitstorm. I'm not sure, because capitalism is constant but human wisdom is intermittent

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