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>> I’ve thought about this a lot over the last few years, and I think the best response is to stop.
This will not happen.
>> Refuse to insult...quit your job.
This is the same mistake as the vegan environmentalist. These flimsy call-to-actions will deliver no impact.
There is gonna be a way to hack it; that's what you do instead. You bias for what's high leverage:
One vegan lifetime --> 6 × 10¹ tons of CO2e avoided
Mario Molina's 1974 paper --> 2.4 × 10¹¹ tons of CO2e avoided
*For the record - whatever this technology paradigm selects for will be correct for its time.