>> 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 its time (people, ideas, things) will be selected 1
- https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here ↩