Fund more efficient solar technologies, panel every roof and every billboard and see if that impacts our energy budget in any substantial way.
Any guesses what would happen?
We could end up blowing billions of dollars that could have gone to something more productive.
Well, it really isn't blown away like steam in a warm wind, now is it? We would still have the solar energy system and the flow of funds to fund a solar project spreads into the economy and there are all kinds of positive spin-off effects of developing technologies, jobs, improvements in people's lives, and possibly lessening our negative impact on the environment and climate of this planet.
dollars that could have gone to something more productive.
What does more productive mean? More of the wealth of the planet transferred to the 1%? More degradation of the biosphere? More jobs, more money flowing through the economy, a better life for more people?
"Do it and see what happens" is usually not the best approach.
You are correct, but that has been the methodology up until now.
For example, we have been living in a "Do it and see what happens" approach to the economy since 1980 when Reagan changed the course of our economy and started the largest and longest transfer of wealth to the rich and ultrarich in U.S. history.
During this same period, big business and big banking have overseen the dismantling of any possibility of a regulatory system to constrain their greed or criminality.
For example, the growth of the petroleum-dependent civilization since 1900 was a huge "Do it and see what happens" approach.
We ended up blowing billions of dollars that could have gone to something more productive. Like a civilization based on Hydrogen and a source of energy.
The "Industrial Revolution" and all of its benefits and banes and all the different aspects of it are examples of "Do it and see what happens".
I like the beneficial aspects of being alive in America during this age, but I wish we Humans could stop fucking everything up, especially endangering future generation's survival.
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