I the discussion about climate change we often forget that by not decreasing emissions we create truly great shareholder value.
Seriously though, we were supposed to decrease emissions by 40% by 2030 to keep things under control. I recently saw in the news that we are on track to just make it to 2% drop. It's not looking good.
I'm quite bullish on widespread fuel synthesis being a thing. It's carbon neutral, sure, but the big benefit in the Earth I'm familiar with is it's entirely decentralized. There's absolutely no need for conflict over concentrated oil and gas reserves, and no need to manage all these supply lines. Just head down to your local LCH4 plant and get your tanks refilled, paying similar prices as today, just the cost goes directly to energy and capex rather than all these storage and transport networks.
Forget Earth, humans of 2500 will be alien to us (humans of 2024). Likely embedded with chip implants, living huge portions of their lives virtually, bionic parts, nutrition injections, who knows.
If a person from 1500 saw us today, he'd recognize we are human but every aspect of our lives -- electricity, screens, driving, etc -- would make no sense. But the rate of change from 1500 to 2000 is very low compared to what we can expect 2000 to 2500.
We will need technology of terraforming anyway in the future. So developing it to stabilize climate so current planet won't kill us is better motivation than developing it for Mars or Venus.
And I think that eventually we will ends up with massive shade between Earth and Sun, because it will be solution with least capital expenditure to achieve stable climate while not requiring great changes in our lives, as that seems to be issue with common folk and their general resistance to green solutions.
This achievement will then unlock ability to terraform Venus, because shading it is first step to cool it down.
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Seriously though, we were supposed to decrease emissions by 40% by 2030 to keep things under control. I recently saw in the news that we are on track to just make it to 2% drop. It's not looking good.
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I wonder what technologies we will have at our disposal in 500 years.
If a person from 1500 saw us today, he'd recognize we are human but every aspect of our lives -- electricity, screens, driving, etc -- would make no sense. But the rate of change from 1500 to 2000 is very low compared to what we can expect 2000 to 2500.
And I think that eventually we will ends up with massive shade between Earth and Sun, because it will be solution with least capital expenditure to achieve stable climate while not requiring great changes in our lives, as that seems to be issue with common folk and their general resistance to green solutions.
This achievement will then unlock ability to terraform Venus, because shading it is first step to cool it down.
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