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Agreed, this is an excellent talk. Main takeaway is to view the problem as debt which has to be paid off. Simply stopping new purchases will not pay off the de
by symplee 7y ago
Agreed, this is an excellent talk.
Main takeaway is to view the problem as debt which has to be paid off. Simply stopping new purchases will not pay off the debt.
Above point summarized here, timestamp 22:15 - https://youtu.be/QyQvfaW54NU?t=1335 https://youtu.be/QyQvfaW54NU?t=1335
We currently have a one trillion ton carbon debt. As a though experiment, for a starting solution to iterate upon, this can be "paid off" with 20 billion trees / year, for 50 years. It would take 9000 drones, 450 staff, $80 mil/year. And a total land area half the size of Brazil. Using current technology. Compare this with alternative approaches being thrown around with price tags of 1 trillion+.
- mehrdadn 7y agoMan I'd hate people to just read this summary and not actually watch the talk. There's just so many important points in it and it's laid out so well that it just doesn't do it justice to summarize it here. Like just to give an example, here's another one: > Even if we emitted no more carbon from this point on, the planet would continue to warm on average and destabilize for about another 500-800 years. Please go watch it. It's just 30 minutes of your time and it's very unlikely you already know everything he's about to mention.