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Earth is a space ship and we have been mismanaging the resources on said ship. When we build our own spaceships, we rapidly develop in miniature the sustainabl
by tobmlt 5y ago
Earth is a space ship and we have been mismanaging the resources on said ship.
When we build our own spaceships, we rapidly develop in miniature the sustainable tech needed to really fix earth.
We already have carbon dioxide scrubbers, we just need a vast clean source of energy in order to clean things up, and stop the pollution on net.
Probably fission is a good enough stop gap.
This will happen as soon as the incentive structures are there.
Engineering progress is helping, even if indirectly. Who knows what more energy efficient environment cleansing tech will he developed for spacecraft next. Or power sources, batteries, etc. Technology development is cumulative and crosses over domains.
Spacex is a spearhead rapidly innovating technology. Government mechanisms are a sort of discombobulated rising tide/ pasture of cows, or herd of scared sheep trying to stay on the grazing turf. Assuming gov’s do not get very much more organized, the better the tech, the easier choices the sheep have to make — win wins get things done. We could benefit greatly from tech advances such that gov gets win wins by making green choices. That way the incentives can tilt more favorably more quickly.