Could Bezos solve climate change? Like, hypothetically, could a person with that many squillions of dollars just…fix it? We can get to the rockets later.
Could Bezos solve climate change? Like, hypothetically, could a person with that many squillions of dollars just…fix it? We can get to the rockets later.
probably not. climate change is a massive problem that requires policy adjustments by states. throwing money at green tech could help around the edges probably...but that's what Musk has done and I wouldn't say he's helped much. (he's a fuckhead, obviously, so...)
I mean, the US has made some real progress on climate goals, there have been major advances in green tech...it's a difficult global problem, but I think there are a number of developments more hopeful than Bezos!
I'll disagree with this one. Not that Musk is not a fuckhead, he obviously is one. But I think its still true that over half the electric vehicles on the road in the US are Teslas and they still account for more than half of all sales of such to private individuals. That has a really large climate impact just in and off itself, but he's also built the charging infrastructure that he's now making available to other manufacturers and helped develop and popularize electric vehicle technology. Sure maybe this could have been done better and by others if we'd had more government mandates sooner, but we didn't. (The Chinese did and so they don't need to Tesla or Musk to drive their charging infrastracture or electric car industry. Of course they did because of Xi Jinping's dictatorship, which is so so much worse than Musk.) But I think claiming Musk had no impact really strikes me as denying he's done some good just because he's a fuckhead. I'll even go so far as to say that I think there's a reasonable case to be made that electric vehicle mandates are only politically possible now in the US because Musk has done so much to popularize the technology. That case isn't unambiguous, but i think it can be argued.
Could Bezos solve climate change? Like, hypothetically, could a person with that many squillions of dollars just…fix it? We can get to the rockets later.
probably not. climate change is a massive problem that requires policy adjustments by states. throwing money at green tech could help around the edges probably...but that's what Musk has done and I wouldn't say he's helped much. (he's a fuckhead, obviously, so...)
It is depressing in the extreme that the most realistic plan is hoping the guy from the online bookstore builds humanity a space ark.
I mean, the US has made some real progress on climate goals, there have been major advances in green tech...it's a difficult global problem, but I think there are a number of developments more hopeful than Bezos!
I'll disagree with this one. Not that Musk is not a fuckhead, he obviously is one. But I think its still true that over half the electric vehicles on the road in the US are Teslas and they still account for more than half of all sales of such to private individuals. That has a really large climate impact just in and off itself, but he's also built the charging infrastructure that he's now making available to other manufacturers and helped develop and popularize electric vehicle technology. Sure maybe this could have been done better and by others if we'd had more government mandates sooner, but we didn't. (The Chinese did and so they don't need to Tesla or Musk to drive their charging infrastracture or electric car industry. Of course they did because of Xi Jinping's dictatorship, which is so so much worse than Musk.) But I think claiming Musk had no impact really strikes me as denying he's done some good just because he's a fuckhead. I'll even go so far as to say that I think there's a reasonable case to be made that electric vehicle mandates are only politically possible now in the US because Musk has done so much to popularize the technology. That case isn't unambiguous, but i think it can be argued.