[TheAdamAndChe]

I just finished reading the book released by Bill Gates titled "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster." In it, he described how tackling this problem will take an extremely difficult combination of technologic advancement, government policy, and market alignment. We need to do everything we can to be sure that choosing the green energy option isn't just the morally correct choice, but is also the rational choice for everyone to make.

I recommend the book BTW. Though it tries its best to be optimistic, I finished it thinking "well shit, I don't know if this is possible." He is right in saying that it won't be easy.

[dgellow]

And during the past decade a market emerged to reward individuals and companies for consuming as much energy as they can: bitcoin mining. The "rational" choice seems to be to just throw as much energy at it as we can. Of course that's completely absurd if the result is to destroy the environment, but that seems to be what is developing.

I start to be really pessimistic about our ability to fix any real issue.

[dools]

The solution is very simple: bigger government. We have been tricked over the past 40 years into accepting that “small government” is a valid policy objective. Solving the big problems and creating big innovation in the 20th century came from a comparatively big government, the private sector was more about commercialisation than innovation and still is.

[dfilppi]

I thought Bill Gates was a business owner. I'm going to ask the guy that runs the auto parts store what he think 'we' should do.

[bryanlarsen]

If that auto parts store guy committed a billion dollars to the fight, hiring and listening to many scientists he'd be an excellent guy to ask.

[swader999]

I have a hard time taking anything that guy pushes given his associations and flights with Epstein.

[TheAdamAndChe]

I personally hold to the ethos of innocent until proven guilty, but suit yourself.

[swader999]

Me too in a just society.

[TheAdamAndChe]

How would assuming guilt until proven innocent lead to a more just society? It seems to me like that would just lead to mob rule.

[swader999]

I don't dispute that assuming guilt before innocence is wrong and in general leads to a worse society. But clearly Mr Gates and his class aren't even subject to the system of justice I and likely you are. It's common knowledge that he's associated with Epstein long after his conviction. That's enough for me to question his credibility.