That’s valid, different people are working on that

vouaobrasil 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

Are they, though? Last time I checked, CO2 is going up without any "flattening of the curve". And whenever mainstream environmentalists annonce X megawatts added to the grid, a tech company announces that they need Y > X megawatts for AI. Plastic production goes up steadily without cessation every year, and there's still immense amounts of deforestation.

No, people "working" on it are intellectually amusing themselves with technology that could be a workable solution if only everyone actually took action and reduced their consumption, which doesn't need that technology in the first place. Pretty much all mainstream solutions are just psychological salves to make us think we are doing something.

Working on it, yeah right. We simply need to make significant reductions in CO2 output and no one is doing that.

Furthermore, technologies like this will make people less likely to do something about the root problem because it ameliorates it.

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t0lo 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

There is and always will be sizeable work on it. Current work has been termed "greenhushing" by the economist due to the need to be discreet in America due to a pretty intellectually lacking voterbase. Over a billion will likely starve and that is a moral failure that we will all carry for the rest of our lives but 3 people dying in a car crash is better than 4 people dying in a car crash.

You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.

The remarkable rise of “greenhushing” https://www.economist.com/business/2025/07/29/the-remarkable...

	▲	vouaobrasil 7 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm afraid the gift already expired, perhaps due to others accesing the article, but I appreciate the link nonetheless.
	▲	parineum 7 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The "rise" of greenhushing sounds a lot more like a decline in green pandering.

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yieldcrv 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ok. The point was that this drone solution by individuals at one university doesn’t detract from other people’s work and it’s a non sequitur to suggest otherwise.

	▲	vouaobrasil 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well, that point itself is invalid. Because ameliorations such as the mapping solution actually makes it less likely that people will do something about the root cause – same as air conditioning makes it less likely that the rich will care about a warming climate.

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literalAardvark 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> We simply need to make significant reductions in CO2 output

Gee, I wonder why no one's thought about that except you.

Maybe because it's actually incredibly difficult to do

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pyrale 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's not difficult, we know what to do, and we know how to do it. We simply don't want to do it.

It's incredibly difficult in the same sense that it's "incredibly difficult" for a teenager to clean their bedroom. They could do it, and they will if forced to, but they'll drag their feet as much as possible.

	▲	vouaobrasil 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		That is right. Worldwide quarantine was also an even more difficult task in some ways if you really think about it but the world was much better at that (even if some countries lagged behind) because there was an immediate pain felt, not unlike a parent threatening the immediate revocation of priveleges. With climate change, there is no such immediate threat to the average high-consumption individual.

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vouaobrasil 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

A rather sarcastic reply, but I never intended to be original nor surprising. I'm afraid I had to point out the obvious, and for that I apologize as it is almost painful, but the OP statement of "people are working on it" is also equally painful in how obviously ineffectual it is.

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literalAardvark 7 days ago | parent [-]

It's ineffectual because the task is impossible under current governance. We'll need to hit rock bottom before anything moves, because all the systems we have in place work against any economically hurtful policies.

	▲	vouaobrasil 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well that is true. No argument there. We do need to hit rock bottom, because humans only respond to immediate pain. We are too stupid to collectively work together.

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imoverclocked 8 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Agreed. Though, at some point humanity would likely benefit from seeing itself as just humanity and not "us vs them" on this front.