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Just like extracting oil shale. Or mining "clean" coal instead of investing in alternatives. Gotcha.
by codesushi42 7y ago
Just like extracting oil shale. Or mining "clean" coal instead of investing in alternatives.
Gotcha.
- maxerickson 7y agoThe apparent downside of burning carbon is much greater than the downside of developing drugs that will eventually become less useful.
- codesushi42 7y agoThey're not just less useful. You're creating new superbugs in the process. Meanwhile, rainforests are disappearing, which likely have plants that offer sustainable solutions. You're heading down an unwinnable path with antibiotics, and creating new superbugs. You're running out of time to discover a real fix, because rainforests are rapidly disappearing. So yeah, the analogy is apt.