@australopithecus@mastodon.social
2026-02-10 17:11 UTC
@btschumy@mas.to @benlockwood@ecoevo.social
We absolutely do have the technology for those things already, it would just be "more expensive" in the sense that the long-term costs of fossil fuels are all externalized.
There are certainly a few things we don't have the technology for yet, but mostly in synthetic chemistry, and the amount of fossil fuels used for that is a tiny fraction of global consumption.
The hardest problem would be weaning off of industrial agriculture.
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@btschumy@mas.to 2026-02-10 17:15
@australopithecus@mastodon.social @benlockwood@ecoevo.social We might have the technology “in the lab” but we don’t have it at scale. To ramp up would be very expensive (as you said) but it would also take time, time that we really don’t have.