Climate change is nothing like previous crises. How are we supposed to reverse physics to make better future happen?
Even if we all adopted neolithic lifestyle and stopped putting more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today, the amount of harmful elements that are already in the atmosphere means temperatures will keep rising for the next couple of decades.
Tell me with a straight face this is same as WW2 or cold war.
It’s not just the carbon dioxide that comes into contact with the chlorophyll in the leaves. It’s all the terpenes (and other aromatics and pollen) it pumps out too. Meaning it cleans the air high in the sky.
And atop that, it can replace many polluting technologies. Oil and deforestation (like for farming), for a couple hot examples.
Even making limecrete housing, instead of offgassing carbon dioxide and causing loads of carbon dioxide during production like concrete does, it’s actually carbon negative, in production and throughout its lifetime, sucking up carbon, further hardening over time.
Similar gains with bioplastics, graphene, paper, fabric, rope, medicine, food, etc.
It can grow in a greater range of climates than any other useful plant. We could re-green e.g. the entire sahara, the australian outback and the southern half of north america. And it’d increase the soil quality readied for other vegetation within a year or two.
And that’s just one idea.
Our problem is not physics, it’s psycho-socio-economic.
If the new solid state battery from donutlabs is legit, that could indicate the trickle of cleaner technologies coming, perhaps even towards availing of the emancipatory technologies that have been suppressed for the past century or two. Many an untapped potential. Even just the more mundane better known, like thorium reactors. We have so much headroom without the crooks keeping us down and dirty.
At this point it’s already happening one way or another so either you resign yourself to the fact that the world you knew is over and do everything in your power to make something better or you cede the future to those who certainly won’t. I’m not delusional, I know things suck. The planet is irreparably damaged. Wallowing in that fact does nothing, it’s a bridge to nowhere.
Climate change is nothing like previous crises. How are we supposed to reverse physics to make better future happen?
Even if we all adopted neolithic lifestyle and stopped putting more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today, the amount of harmful elements that are already in the atmosphere means temperatures will keep rising for the next couple of decades.
Tell me with a straight face this is same as WW2 or cold war.
No “reverse physics” required.
One idea among many:
Restore cannabis.
It cleans air 7 times more than pine forests.
It’s not just the carbon dioxide that comes into contact with the chlorophyll in the leaves. It’s all the terpenes (and other aromatics and pollen) it pumps out too. Meaning it cleans the air high in the sky.
And atop that, it can replace many polluting technologies. Oil and deforestation (like for farming), for a couple hot examples.
Even making limecrete housing, instead of offgassing carbon dioxide and causing loads of carbon dioxide during production like concrete does, it’s actually carbon negative, in production and throughout its lifetime, sucking up carbon, further hardening over time.
Similar gains with bioplastics, graphene, paper, fabric, rope, medicine, food, etc.
It can grow in a greater range of climates than any other useful plant. We could re-green e.g. the entire sahara, the australian outback and the southern half of north america. And it’d increase the soil quality readied for other vegetation within a year or two.
And that’s just one idea.
Our problem is not physics, it’s psycho-socio-economic.
If the new solid state battery from donutlabs is legit, that could indicate the trickle of cleaner technologies coming, perhaps even towards availing of the emancipatory technologies that have been suppressed for the past century or two. Many an untapped potential. Even just the more mundane better known, like thorium reactors. We have so much headroom without the crooks keeping us down and dirty.
You had me at cannabis, fuck yeah lol
At this point it’s already happening one way or another so either you resign yourself to the fact that the world you knew is over and do everything in your power to make something better or you cede the future to those who certainly won’t. I’m not delusional, I know things suck. The planet is irreparably damaged. Wallowing in that fact does nothing, it’s a bridge to nowhere.
Whatever. I’m still not going to have kids. The future is fucked and I don’t want to inflict it upon them.