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50 years from now everything will be renewables, all the heavy industry will be on the moon and we’ll be using fleets of self-driving EVs. It’s going to be clos
by makerofthings 5y ago
50 years from now everything will be renewables, all the heavy industry will be on the moon and we’ll be using fleets of self-driving EVs. It’s going to be close, you can expect some turbulence, some coastal areas are going to get flooded, there might be the odd border skirmish, but 100 years from now nobody will talk about Climate change outside of history books. This is my optimistic hope for the future.
- tlb 5y agoWhat are the advantages of putting heavy industry on the moon?
- makerofthings 5y agoI imagine there is no need to worry about pollution, or carbon footprint or any of that. Stick nuclear reactors all over the place, nothing to really worry about if anything goes wrong with them. It’s just a big ball of rock with no atmosphere so it seems like an ideal place to stick all the dirty industry that’s messing the earth up.
- CRConrad 5y agoIf you're going to lift industry out of the Earth's gravity well, what's the use of plonking it down the Moon's? You'll only have to lift the finished product out of it again, in stead of just nudging it to drop from orbit.
- Der_Einzige 5y agoYeah, quick mass adoption of EVs combined with rapid tech logical development in a few other sectors has led me to get far more optimistic about our future. Climate adaptation technologies will bridge whatever gaps are left by the destruction we have on the environment that happened before we decarbonize the economy.