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"the penultimate problem" you seem to think "penultimate" is a more grandiose way of saying "ultimate", but it's not. it means "second to last".
Well, "ultimate" means last. So it's really a way of saying "second most important", which I think could easily have been what they were going for there.
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I disagree. We've had all necessary technology all along. It's exactly the lack of moral responsibility that's holding us back. Fighting climate change is more akin to the civil rights movement than to the Manhattan project.
I don’t disagree that we have the technology to emit less pollution simply by doing less (the moral decisions in this hypothetical), but the issue is that most (perhaps nearly all) people in the world don’t agree with your morality. This makes technologies which bypass this problem far more feasible, even if they’re further out from actually solving the problem. They might have the potential to get there, whereas mor…
Beef is the problem. Beef is not a necessary food. It can also cause health issues. The fact that it emits a lot of carbon makes meat a thing to work on.
I don't like those kind of projects because they sort of try to bank on the global warming problem with inventions and new things, except this doesn't work, because CO2 is just too hard to eliminate. It's the penultimate problem of industrialized capitalism: "we have a problem and we need to MAKE something new to solve this". But the problem was always the excess of industry in the first place. The solution is simple…
You get downvoted because you provide no arguments for why it is too hard of a problem for eliminate. You also didn't provide any arguments as to why this specific approach won't work. It's similar to people closing their eyes when there's fire and screaming "we'll all die". It's your choice to believe that, but don't stand in the doors trying to prevent people from searching for a survival route.