It's interesting that you mention corona because I think people will learn the wrong lesson from it. We didn't come up with a vaccine through sheer force of will. The RNA vaccine technology had been in the works for many years already, and was pretty late stage. We took advantage of that opportunity and produced the first real RNA vaccine, but even the specific vaccine itself was ready by January 2020. The remaining time was testing and regulatory hurdles, which were accelerated because that only requires saying "let it be so".
We got a highly effective vaccine for covid in a short time because we'd spent the prior decades researching and developing technology for exactly this situation.
But even politicians will see this as reinforcing the idea of human exceptionalism. The whole "when our backs are against the wall and we put our minds to it, we can do anything!"
In reality, the lesson is the same as always: long-term thinking is paramount and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
that's really interesting. I knew about the RNA thing, but not that we basically already had a vaccine in early 2020 that just took time to test and produce. the infrastructure for this rollout was already there. then again, I suppose the infrastructure for the solution to climate change is too already in place :gui:
Yeah, a lot of the "infrastructure" to ameliorate climate change is "literally just stop doing a bunch of things that we don't actually need to survive anyway. and then plant some trees."
But we refuse to stop or give up anything, so instead we're trying to find technology solutions and doing cap and trade and shit.
we won't do anything at all, and then dig deeper into cope and denial as it gets worse and worse. the same happened with corona virus already
It's interesting that you mention corona because I think people will learn the wrong lesson from it. We didn't come up with a vaccine through sheer force of will. The RNA vaccine technology had been in the works for many years already, and was pretty late stage. We took advantage of that opportunity and produced the first real RNA vaccine, but even the specific vaccine itself was ready by January 2020. The remaining time was testing and regulatory hurdles, which were accelerated because that only requires saying "let it be so".
We got a highly effective vaccine for covid in a short time because we'd spent the prior decades researching and developing technology for exactly this situation.
But even politicians will see this as reinforcing the idea of human exceptionalism. The whole "when our backs are against the wall and we put our minds to it, we can do anything!"
In reality, the lesson is the same as always: long-term thinking is paramount and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
that's really interesting. I knew about the RNA thing, but not that we basically already had a vaccine in early 2020 that just took time to test and produce. the infrastructure for this rollout was already there. then again, I suppose the infrastructure for the solution to climate change is too already in place :gui:
Yeah, a lot of the "infrastructure" to ameliorate climate change is "literally just stop doing a bunch of things that we don't actually need to survive anyway. and then plant some trees."
But we refuse to stop or give up anything, so instead we're trying to find technology solutions and doing cap and trade and shit.