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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

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Ramez Naam

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Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale – we only have one planet after all. We’re better off cutting our emissions so we don’t need them.

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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.

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May 25, 2024

Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.

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May 25, 2024

Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale – we only have one planet after all. We’re better off cutting our emissions so we don’t need them.

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