[formlessentity]

Seems to me waste heat won’t be as big of a problem as waste cooling. The sun is almost pure heat for us right now. By capturing more of that energy with photovoltaics and converting it to, say, plastic, we are cooling the planet.

Neither one is a problem IMO because the earth isn’t a fragile place, it operates at temperature swings of over a hundred degrees F, at least 30 degrees in a nice temperature zone where various plant species thrive.

[bee_rider]

I want to quibble about the idea that “the world isn’t a fragile place,” in the sense that I’m very open to the idea that the conditions for humans to thrive happily might be pretty fragile and we need to keep protect them. It’s just—the bar of “civilization is doomed” is incredibly high.

I mean medieval Europe had civilization, it wasn’t a very pleasant one for lots of the people in it, but it was a civilization. There are lots of outcomes we’d like to prevent before we get to “civilization is doomed.”