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Request for Startups: Climate Tech

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Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only way you will get change at scale before disaster is to help people keep their lifestyle. Climate change is a fixable problem. It is not anywhere near the point that choices will be made for people in the next two to three decades.

Curbing climate change without curbing behavior and lifestyle are completely at odds with each other.

That is not the case. In the past we've made huge improvements to human efficiency in terms of resource usage and waste output. We still can and will. Unless we destroy the economy before we can develop the required technology.

Re: Request for Startups: Climate Tech

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The list feels like "this is everything you can try" rather than "this is everything you should try". Some of these are "let's take an unrelated industry and try to cram climate into its story", others are ideas that are doomed to fail. And the "if only forests existed forever they would be a better carbon sink" argument is so flawed I am disappointed to see it at all. But, also a lot of good projects to work on in t…

Which ideas are doomed to fail? I would love to hear your feedback

I'd rather not give a thorough list, for obvious reasons. I will note one example, they note "Long-haul aviation does not currently have a generally accepted path to electrification", but include it on the list anyway.
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