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Progress & Simplicity
I work for a company developing carbon capture technology. We believe we can reverse climate change through engineering— machines that pull CO2 from the atmosphere, but my neighbor thinks we're insane. He keeps telling me you can't engineer your way out of a crisis caused by engineering, He 's anti technology and big on less consumption, more farming. He's not wrong that our lifestyle is unsustainable, but I've done the math. Eight billion people can't all become permaculture farmers. We can't degrow our way to survival. We need technological solutions. But carbon capture at scale requires enormous energy, creates its own waste streams, and lets people avoid the harder changes. He says it's a fantasy that lets us keep destroying the planet while feeling virtuous. I believe in human ingenuity. He believes in human limits. We both want to save the world but we can't both be right about how. How do your timeless principles apply to a modern problem like this?
Portrait of Jules Verne

Jules Verne

"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real—science leads little by little to the truth"

28 votes

Portrait of Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

"Our life is frittered away by detail—simplify, simplify; we do not ride the railroad, it rides upon us"

34 votes

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