Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Finished reading: Brighter 📚, or what I call it: The Consumer’s Manifest on How to Handle Climate Change. Adam Dorr, you are such a bore. You should have been satisfied with an article instead of repeating yourself ad nauseam. Clearly you’re not a believer of the power of example. I, for one, am looking forward to those nanobots cleaning our bodies and environment of the forever chemicals that are currently causing us all kinds of problems. Who is working on that again? That’s true, no mention of those details.

Oh, and how the hell have you thought of getting all the raw materials necessary for this technologies without a throng of open pits and deep-sea mining that will further devastate the environment? Is it a question of destroying a bit more because we can always fix it with the subsequent technology.

I understand people want some positive outlook in this bleak world, and sure, I can be convinced that technology is our only hope and that prosperity is the only way to ensure technological development. But how can shouting “technology” over and over again without any substance provide clarity? On our new food sources, the author provides one - 1 - example, despite him claiming the industry will be disrupted within 15 years.

And that blue-eyed optimism about technological transfer to poor countries; do you really believe history will change so much that we stop exploiting poor countries and transfer technologies on the cheap to them?

I won’t even comment on the last part of the book, where the author envisions our ancestors living somewhere else and maintaining Earth as a museum. Is this real research or a lost script from a science fiction series?