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Which is why we need a home solar revolution. The grid is going to have to undergo huge evolution, but increasingly corruption and political gridlock make that unreliable. Plus home solar empowers you from centralized control and functions as the only free market alternative to the regulatory captured grid infrastructure. Home storage with sodium ion and hopefully in 2-4 years sodium sulfur will drop costs 50%. Also,…
Yes. Also radiative cooling. Lawns literally suck here too, we need more trees and bushes, biomass fixation, in personal homes, for shade and drought resistance. And massive, diverse reforestation to replete ground water reserves and stabilize the local weather. We also need to massively invest in poor countries' ability to survive too. Or else conflicts will spread to us regardless of our own resilience.
Its anecdotal, but my very progressive friends (think: Bernie Sanders type voters) have over time subtly started expressing opinions that are regressive to world assistance.
Namely, an attitude that nations should reap what they sow. They equate ecological devastation in poor countries almost solely to the inability of those countries leaders to do anything effective or sustaining. While they aren't wrong per se, its in ignorance or disregard of other broader factors.
All this is to say, I hold little hope that poor countries will receive much aid from richer ones unless they already have something useful to trade