{"id":16227,"date":"2024-10-16T10:38:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T08:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/is-it-worse-to-have-no-climate-solutions-or-to-have-them-but-refuse-to-use-them-rebecca-solnit\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T10:38:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T08:38:27","slug":"is-it-worse-to-have-no-climate-solutions-or-to-have-them-but-refuse-to-use-them-rebecca-solnit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/is-it-worse-to-have-no-climate-solutions-or-to-have-them-but-refuse-to-use-them-rebecca-solnit\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it worse to have no climate solutions \u2013 or to have them but refuse to use them? | Rebecca Solnit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tech barons are forever predicting some amazing new technology to fix the climate crisis. Yet fixes already exist<\/p>\n

There are so many ways to fiddle while Rome burns, or as this season\u2019s weather would have it, gets torn apart by hurricanes and tornadoes and also goes underwater \u2013 and, in other places, burns. One particularly pernicious way comes from the men in love with big tech<\/a>, who are forever insisting that we need some amazing new technology to solve our problems, be it geoengineering, carbon sequestration or fusion \u2013 but wait, it gets worse.<\/p>\n

At an artificial intelligence<\/a> conference in Washington DC, the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt<\/a> recently claimed<\/a> that \u201c[w]e\u2019re not going to hit the climate goals anyway because we\u2019re not organized to do it\u201d and that we should just plunge ahead with AI, which is so huge an energy hog it\u2019s prompted a number of tech companies to abandon their climate goals. Schmidt then threw out the farfetched notion that we should go all in on AI because maybe AI will somehow, maybe, eventually know how to \u201csolve\u201d climate, saying: \u201cI\u2019d rather bet on AI solving the problem than constraining it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell\u2019s Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunatabua of the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility<\/p>\n

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\nTech barons are forever predicting some amazing new technology to fix the climate crisis. Yet fixes already exist
\nThere are so many ways to fiddle while Rome burns, or as this season\u2019s weather would have it, gets torn apart by hurricanes and tornadoes and also goes underwater \u2013 and, in other places, burns. One particularly pernicious way comes from the men in love with big tech, who are forever insisting that we need some amazing new technology to solve our problems, be it geoengineering, carbon sequestration or fusion \u2013 but wait, it gets worse.
\nAt an artificial intelligence conference in Washington DC, the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently claimed that \u201c[w]e\u2019re not going to hit the climate goals anyway because we\u2019re not organized to do it\u201d and that we should just plunge ahead with AI, which is so huge an energy hog it\u2019s prompted a number of tech companies to abandon their climate goals. Schmidt then threw out the farfetched notion that we should go all in on AI because maybe AI will somehow, maybe, eventually know how to \u201csolve\u201d climate, saying: \u201cI\u2019d rather bet on AI solving the problem than constraining it.\u201d
\nRebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell\u2019s Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunatabua of the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tech barons are forever predicting some amazing new technology to fix the climate crisis. Yet fixes already exist There are so many ways to fiddle while Rome burns, or as this season\u2019s weather would have it, gets torn apart by hurricanes and tornadoes and also goes underwater \u2013 and, in other places, burns. One particularly …<\/p>\n

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