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I am not talking about cost at all. More about commercial interests vs public interests. Elon Musks stance on fighting climate change seems to be that we can j
by sascha_sl 5y ago
I am not talking about cost at all. More about commercial interests vs public interests.
Elon Musks stance on fighting climate change seems to be that we can just solve the problem with technology without doing much about endless consumption and waste, failing that mitigating the issues for whoever can afford to, starting with biohazard mode on your Tesla and ending with escaping to Mars. I don't want all our space tech in the hands of such a person. Happy to see China is still investing more heavily.
- willbw 5y agoOut of curiosity, how well do you think fighting climate change through reducing consumption and waste is going? Well enough to discount alternatives?
- sascha_sl 5y agoInversion of cause and effect. At least where I live our neoliberal and conservative parties love to defer to technology we don't have yet and might never have (we once had a fun case of "flying taxis" being lauded as a solution to congestion too) to justify doing nothing about emissions. I'm not saying we shouldn't do both, but we have solutions now. Be it nuclear power, penalties for food waste, subsidies for public transport infrastructure, taxing fossil fuels... you get the idea. We just need politicians to stop their wishful thinking - the kind fueled by Elon Musk - and confront the realities of the situation