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"Most effort on the climate change front seems to be going towards linear solutions to essentially exponential problems:"

Quote of the freaking century.

This is exactly the problem that most fail to realise.

This is not just a matter of replacing the current energy sources with greener alternatives.

This is about finding radically new ways to mine the universe for power because we sure are going to need it in order to survive and progress.



I concur - brilliant quote. I was thinking about this earlier today, how to put into words the seeming inadequacy of 'green' / 'alternative' energy projects. Some of them might really be good alternatives by now but what we really need is an 'exponential' breakthrough.




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