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> “This opens up the possibility that we could stabilize the climate for affordable amounts of money without changing the entire energy system or changing every
by vanderZwan 8y ago
> “This opens up the possibility that we could stabilize the climate for affordable amounts of money without changing the entire energy system or changing everyone’s behavior.”
Regardless of whether this technology works as promised, the last part (and possibly the first part too) does not show the right attitude to solving this issue, I think. It's not just technology that got us into this mess. It's also how we decided to apply that technology. Silver bullet or not, we need to change that.
It's one thing if the necessary changes don't have to be as drastic and doom and gloom as predicted until now, but if everyone thinks "oh it's fine, we fixed this!" we'll be hit by Jevon's Paradox[0] so hard that we somehow manage to destroy ourselves anyway.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox