{"id":56813,"date":"2021-02-17T08:21:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56813"},"modified":"2021-02-17T08:21:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:21:38","slug":"heal-the-planet-for-profit-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56813","title":{"rendered":"Heal the Planet for Profit \u2013 Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header title-container fix\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"Heal the Planet for Profit \u2013 Redux\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2021\/02\/heal-the-planet-for-profit-redux\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Heal the Planet for Profit \u2013 Redux<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-container fix\">\n<div class=\"entry fix\"><center><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Tempest_(Giorgione)\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LaTempestaGiorgione1508.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGiorgione\u00a0<b>The Tempest<\/b>\u00a01508<\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HorLine300px.png\" \/><\/center><i>\u201cMankind\u2019s only chance to not destroy its planet lies in diverging from all other species in that not all energy available to it, is used up as fast as possible. But that\u2019s a big challenge. It would, speaking from a purely philosophical angle, truly separate us from nature for the first time ever, and we must wonder if that\u2019s desirable.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I wrote that 4 years and 2 months ago today, and I\u2019m still thinking about it. It came to mind again, along with the article it comes from, see below, when I saw a few recent references to climate change, and to how any policy to halt it should be financed. It\u2019s all painfully obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates, while on a virtual book tour, says governments should pay. In particular for the innovation needed. We\u2019re going to solve it all with things we haven\u2019t invented yet. That kind of thinking never fails to greatly boost my confidence in people and their ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Gates\u2019 words feel like a stale same old same old been there done that tone. But one thing is changing. Since Joe Biden became the most popular US president ever, according to his vote count, there is now a climate czar at the US Treasury, and a climate change team at the US Fed. Progress! At least for those seeking to use\u00a0<i>your<\/i>\u00a0money to solve\u00a0<i>their<\/i>\u00a0problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-56042029\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Gates: Solving Covid Easy Compared With Climate<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Mr Gates\u2019s new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, is a guide to tackling global warming. [..] Net zero is where we need to get to. This means cutting emissions to a level where any remaining greenhouse gas releases are balanced out by absorbing an equivalent amount from the atmosphere&#8230;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-container fix\">\n<div class=\"entry fix\">\n<p class=\"first-para\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heal the Planet for Profit \u2013 Redux Giorgione\u00a0The Tempest\u00a01508\u201cMankind\u2019s only chance to not destroy its planet lies in diverging from all other species in that not all energy available to it, is used up as fast as possible. But that\u2019s a big challenge. It would, speaking from a purely philosophical angle, truly separate us from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[112,140,4118,263,14601,14602,303,536,588,1980,13924,4382,5177,18336,924,7261],"class_list":["post-56813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","tag-carbon","tag-climate","tag-efficiency","tag-energy","tag-excess","tag-externalities","tag-fed","tag-money","tag-oil","tag-profit","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-solar","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-treasury","tag-waste","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}