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by m3kw9 47 days ago
Except the threat isn’t clear to all and our tech tree in 400 year is likely to quell climate change
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If I was a foreign adversary, I would be influencing elections to sabotage that tech tree as much as I could.

Brand climate science as “woke” and get the government to slash investment in non-performative research, monitoring, and development.

Instead, manipulate/lobby representatives into doubling or tripling investment in technologies that maintain the status quo, and incentivize/subsidize subpar solutions with public dollars.

All while your allies do the opposite and jump ahead.