What Scientists Can’t Do
As this fellow notes, we’ve long since passed the point of developing the technology required to address environmental issues like climate change and the loss of biodiversity.
The problems we face are not those of how to decarbonize our energy and transportation sectors; rather, they reside in our greed. Phasing out the consumption of fossil fuels in favor of nuclear and renewables will move uncountable trillions of dollars out of the hands of the wealthiest and most powerful people on Earth, and they’re fighting this to the death.
I agree with this woman 100% (though I point out that her last sentence here is a statement, not a question).
A reader sent me this and notes, “This is what happens when you let the 16 year old employees make the signs.”
I like this guy’s positivity, but I caution that Trump is coming out “armed for bear,” in terms of centralizing power within the U.S. presidency, and he’s making sure he runs into as little resistance as possible.
Most math teachers wish they had a dollar for every time some cheeky 14-year-old raised his hand in their class and asked, “Am I ever going to use this even once in my life?”
The subject of energy storage is like anything else in technology: lots of entrants of completely different types that, over time are winnowed down, and ultimately, the “winners win and the losers lose.” What happens next is that the losers are eventually forgotten.
Here’s a woman with a tattoo that reminds us that about 45% of our countrymen have joined a cult of ignorance and hate, and another 5% are in another, closely related cult: one of selfishness and greed.
From a reader, with my comments below:
I’m not a billionaire, let alone one with the net worth of Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, so maybe I’m the wrong guy to ask, but I would say that the answer to the question that this young man raises at left lies in the fact that most of the world’s wealthiest people care very little about anyone but themselves, and perhaps their immediate families.
At left are the words of U.S. representative Adam Schiff. Sure, conservatives view Schiff as some sort of blend of the anti-Christ and Karl Marx, but doesn’t he have a point here?
