Topics around climate change: For example, why is it that many people doubt that humanity is responsible for global warming? Some work has been done on agnotol

Topics around climate change: For example, why is it that many people doubt that humanity is responsible for global warming? Some work has been done on agnotology -- the study of the spread of doubt and ignorance -- already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology And then: how can we offset the forces propagating doubt and ignorance? One of the goals of adding annotations to news with tools like https://hypothes.is/ https://hypothes.is/ would be to fact-check misinformation. Energy: The cost of energy is asymptotically approaching zero particularly in solar. While free energy in itself is great, more interesting questions are: what are the limits of what we can make with it? What are the social repercussions of free energy and its corollaries? To what extent can we subsidize yeast factories -- which we know can manufacture everything from methyl halids (gasoline) to LSD -- to create other substances necessary to society? https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16989-yeast-and-bacterium-turned-into-gasoline-factory/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16989-yeast-and-bacte... https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/jun/21/scientists-make-lsd-from-microbes https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/jun/21/scienti... Geoengineering: Let's assume we can't stop the forces creating the CO2 that is warming the planet in time to avert catastrophic ecological collapse. What can we do to remove that CO2 from the atmosphere? Let's get serious about studying man-made carbon sinks via the iron fertilization of algae blooms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization