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t’s easy to feel like climate change is too big of
a problem for makers to tackle; I certainly felt
this way. Yeah, adding solar panels to my RV felt
good and helps a bit, but I’m still towing it behind
my gas-guzzling F-450. Modern life emits a lot of
carbon, and it’s not stopping any time soon. Nor is
warming: we’ve only experienced half of the heat
we’ve already baked in with our past emissions.
The more I learned, the greater my suspicion
that global warming is too great a challenge for
makers like me!
I turned to the wrong fiction for a distraction.
In Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock, a Texan
billionaire builds the biggest gun in ...