• 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.world
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    Reverse osmosis and water filtration technology solutions

    UPDATE: Also, why not focus on stopping money going towards cryptocurrency instead of AI. Sure, AI is not the greatest for some, but cryto is a scam every day of the week

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    In everything that has a realistic chance to stop or reverse climate change

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    Finding new and unique ways to make parabolic mirrors more efficiently and inexpensively

    Imagine being into generative AI when the moon is literally red as I type this. You could be looking at the Orion Nebula right now instead of staring at a screen playing charades with a soulless marionette dancing under the hands of billionaires who you’re giving a direct line straight into your brain, bypassing all critical thought

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    how about pocket computers with the power of a smartphone but the common sense usability of a goddamn graphing calculator? i’m sitting on a magic rectangle with more computing power than the apollo mission and it doesn’t even let me blink the LED without installing an app?? these things should legally have to come with a scripting environment.

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        As someone who has used a graphing calculator in high school, uhhhhhh I must have been using a different brand because it was always a struggle.

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        the closest thing on android right now is an app called Termux, it simulates a linux scripting environment with several languages (including C, python, and javascript), and it can be programmed to do anything an app can do (including blink the LED).

        but c’mon, that should be standard. also phones should come rooted.

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    Software that is both ridiculously easy to use and able to bypass any and all DRM schemes past, present, and future. As a firm believer that any form of computer (not including game consoles because I don’t care about them) software that severely limits when, where, and how you can use your legally purchased games, movies, e-books, etcetera, should be outright illegal, this is my answer.

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      Kind of a two-fer right there. Without “AI” sucking up so much power, we’d already be better off climate-wise.

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          I wrote Generative AI. Do you want to put the two on the same scale of complexity?

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              I agree. Still it is a set with way fewer elements than action against climate change. Also, the nature of operations in the latter case is way more diversified than in the development of the former.

              It is only my opinion though, you may find Generative AI a hydra compared to the other.

              By the way, the money would be well spent indeed but not even close to enough for a sustainable change.

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                idk about that last part actually. some of the stuff we can do for the climate we just aren’t doing.

                also we could just hire a few hitmen

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        Buying companies that create a lot of pollution and closing them down. (Coal mines/plants, oil firms, single use plastic suppliers, etc)

        Another big one would be buying up pharma companies an their patents and releasing everything under creative commons license.

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          Question on this, how would you expect the millions of people that heat/cool their homes to get by? Or are you advocating for a return to caves ? Unless you’re saying shut those down to build nuclear/solar/wind, which also takes a lot of dirty manufacturing to build. It’s kind of a no-win with this many humans.

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            Bio gas is a lot better than coal and fossil oil for the mean time. But long term basically the whole world should be using heatpumps for heating and cooling, they are incredibly efficient and outperform any other system on every metric. Especially because electricity will become dirt cheap in a few years/decades.

            The only reason they arent installed in every house yet is the fossil fuel lobby and their bought politicians, but even they are slowly realizing that its the inevitable solution.

            which also takes a lot of dirty manufacturing to build

            Solar compensates its production+installation footprint in around a year see here for the relevant numbers from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory

            Wind power plants compensate theirs in a matter of a few months. See this part of Climate Towns latest video analyzing the typical propaganda that made you falsely believe that https://youtu.be/wBC_bug5DIQ?t=185

            Nuclear is obviously stupid and does indeed cost way too much and take way too much effort for how bad of a deal you get out of it when its done.

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        It is a singular endeavor with tons of moving parts, like pretty much every modern endeavor.

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          My problem with counting all climate change is that the goal itself is not unique: there are atmospheric greenhouse gasses to lower, which are something completely different than the acidification of the oceans, which are completely different from deforestation.

          And the effects themselves are, it’s true, all originated from an imbalance in a system, but exactly because climate is a complex system, they differ wildly.