My mind is also starting to shift towards this.
Both because of increased belief in human ingenuity and because of decreased belief in human ability to downgrade comfort expectations.
Degradable plastic, lab meat, carbon removal tech. It’ll work out. I hope it will. It has to.
More and more I'm starting to believe every major issue we caused has a solution to it once we actually start to get close to it becoming a massive problem. Refreshing way to not be a doomer.
You daily dose of good news: Chemists have finally developed a type of plastic whose lifespan can be programmed - it can be made to break down after days, months or years, depending on the design. The innovation uses chemical building blocks inspired by natural polymers (like
