And anyone trying otherwise will struggle significantly at the polls. Mass carbon removal, renewable energy, recycling and maybe some technological solutions to limit the effects of atmospheric carbon seem like the more practical way to go.
Global warming and other environmental crises are unfolding right now. While exploring possible future technological advances which would make coping with it easier is certainly a positive and useful pursuit - it cannot be the _main_ pursuit when facing those crises and challenges. That is:
1. We should not divert the discussion from present to possible fortuitous futures.
2. We must not confuse action with prospects.
3. We must not think of the two as "either-or". We can reduce emissions _and_ do R&D for new tech possibilities.
We don’t NEED to reduce emissions. So long as we clean up as much or more than we pollute, what’s the problem?
