<aside> 🌱 When you are given a better option for a lower cost, I sincerely hope that you take it.
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You deserve to live in a world where the products you buy and the energy you use don’t reliably come with a heavy helping of guilt.
A world where we can effectively produce goods without concurrently destroying the world around us. Worlds where the usage of products outpaces the replenishment of products tend to have finite time limits. You can only burn down so many forests and bury so much plastic before it all starts to catch up with you, and a breaking point is getting ever closer in our rearview mirror.
In case no one has told you, let me be the first: we have these technologies in our sights. The technologies that let us utilize resources and still leave plenty for others. Some are fully developed, some are being built, and some are concepts that people are just beginning to explore, but they are there.
We have the building blocks for renewable, sustainable manufacturing.
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Before you get a mental picture of a small, local artisanal farm, let me stop you. I’m not talking about hemp t-shirts, paper straws, or water in milk cartons.
I’m talking about industries that touch each and every one of our lives.
I’m talking about well-insulated homes. Homes that are built to last, beautifully designed, and mass-producible. Homes for a generation that is being slowly priced out of existing, where it is too expensive to live alone, but simultaneously illegal to have roommates (looking at you, Shawnee).
I’m talking about new processes for large scale medicinal suppliers. Using cell lines to create antibody treatments and replacing the traditional way of injecting goats with disease then slowly bleeding them out to collect antibodies from their blood.
I’m talking about not having to use any fossil fuels anymore, not only because of the more commonly known sources of alternative energy, but also because we can create diesel fuels from algae that is just as useful in situations that require combustion, without drilling and fighting over the territories of earth that contain it.
These are just a few examples of technologies that exist, and they have the propensity of costing the same as current methods. They just lack the widespread adoption.