My nonsensical-miracle bet is a plucky team of three to four Post-scarcity Socialist Space Explorers make a stealthy trip down to Earth (though due to a cultural archive misunderstanding they’re all dressed like 20’s gangsters, and one of them needs to hide their tentacles under a veil) to offer a gentle nudge to a frazzled pair of fusion scientists.
Otherwise, nanotech isn’t really possible in the miraculous Drexlerian sense, microtech isn’t going very fast and probably can’t scale, biotech could do everything needed but the research is slow and heavily impeded by policy, fusion is unknowable but probably just distracting from achievable research, room-temp superconductors could have massive impact if affordable, and shade/cloud geoengineering also has the problem of less sunlight reaching crops (which should be correctable by adding a set of orbital solar mirrors, like the USSR tried)… but obviously tech miracles do nothing to alter the underlying structure, merely pushing the deadline away a bit while another threat builds up.
A miracle would be great, but only in that it gives time to work change on the actual problem.
One of the current problems is that clean, renewable energy sources are not replacing fossil fuels, but being added on top of them. The capacity is inducing demand, in the absence of any regulation.
A few years back before the crypto collapse, it’s production increased electricity demand enough to negate all solar and wind power on earth. Like decades of bs green washing was wiped out for funny money
My nonsensical-miracle bet is a plucky team of three to four Post-scarcity Socialist Space Explorers make a stealthy trip down to Earth (though due to a cultural archive misunderstanding they’re all dressed like 20’s gangsters, and one of them needs to hide their tentacles under a veil) to offer a gentle nudge to a frazzled pair of fusion scientists.
Otherwise, nanotech isn’t really possible in the miraculous Drexlerian sense, microtech isn’t going very fast and probably can’t scale, biotech could do everything needed but the research is slow and heavily impeded by policy, fusion is unknowable but probably just distracting from achievable research, room-temp superconductors could have massive impact if affordable, and shade/cloud geoengineering also has the problem of less sunlight reaching crops (which should be correctable by adding a set of orbital solar mirrors, like the USSR tried)… but obviously tech miracles do nothing to alter the underlying structure, merely pushing the deadline away a bit while another threat builds up.
A miracle would be great, but only in that it gives time to work change on the actual problem.
One of the current problems is that clean, renewable energy sources are not replacing fossil fuels, but being added on top of them. The capacity is inducing demand, in the absence of any regulation.
A few years back before the crypto collapse, it’s production increased electricity demand enough to negate all solar and wind power on earth. Like decades of bs green washing was wiped out for funny money