We have the solutions to solve the problems facing us. It doesn’t take new tech, it takes deploying the tech we have and innovating around it, much more than inventing new gizmos. That’s the techno-optimist utopia that makes sense for the coming decades, not a laboratory experiment or insolation geoengineering pipedream. We don’t have to fix every problem, just the pressing ones without creating too many new ones.
Back when Important Media (the network CleanTechnica is a part of) was started, the idea was primarily that the customers would be the writers. The network (which was actually called Green Options Media, or GO Media, for a few years) would handle web hosting, website design, other website management items, etc. Writers wouldn’t have to worry about that, would have a joint platform for writing about topics they were passionate about, and would have an attentive community ready to engage and share their content.
In the world of academia, the common structure for writing is to first present a problem or uncertainty and then present how your research responds to that. Academics know not to be influenced by the stated problem or question but to rather wait and see what the findings of the … [continued]
