heres how I know; vietnam & australia didn't need the vaccine to do it, so whatever it is that caused the US to not be able to deal with the pandemic without the vaccine is also gonna make the US be unable to deal with the pandemic with the vaccine.
The lack of the vaccine isn't the problem, corruption is. It isn't a tech problem, it's a governance problem. The US is gonna have COVID for ever.
PS, the exact same thing applies for climate change. Ppl be like "oh climate change will be fixed once we invent the right tech". The thing is, we already have the tech to end climate change, we're just ruled by ppl who don't want to. We're fucked, and we're fucked forever, stop waiting for the ghost of albert einstein to solve your problems for you with a glass vial & recognize that anyone who tells you to is the enemy
we really don't, you can't power our fleets of trucks with solar panels and batteries.
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my dream is they run rails down the middle of all U.S. interstates and slowly ban cars from them. run solar panels down the sides of the old interstate pavement and connect to the grid. use electric drives and mix cargo and passengers. use smaller connecting engines to pick up cargo and passenger modules at major track "off ramps" and transport them to distribution centers and passenger hubs. localized electric cars, delivery trucks and buses (free and communal) for local driving and local delivery. people can still have their "freedom to travel" but like ten thousand times more efficiently.
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It's a tough job, no doubt. Vienna or even London is probably not possible.
But cities like Sydney have Atlanta levels of Urban Sprawl and "Good-enough" public transport (ie. better than any US city save maybe New York).
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My parents' mansion in Servants Entrance, CT, is 10 miles of rough terrain from any train station, how do you propose that I get there? Or to any exurb, for that matter.
Don't say "we're in overshoot; there's no way to provide the energy to move 3 billion people and their individual vehicles along 50 mile round trips every day" because I won't accept it.
We neeeeeeeeeeed a way to provide for our lifestyle
oh well I guess it's a shame that trucks aren't a technology that can be replaced with a greener option, too bad cross-country freight trucking is the only option :/ sucks that god took trains away from us in the flood but what can u do, guess its fossil fuel only for us bc British Petrol paid someone $400,000 to tell you you can't power the trucking fleet with solar panels
We're never going to have anything remotely sustainable with the number of trucks on the road that we have, and so on. No matyer how you power them, it's woefully inefficient amd a huge waste of energy. Degrowth is the only feasible category at this point, and we should welcome it rather than resisting it.
We can provide for people's needs without jetpacks or 5G.
You can name pretty much anything we produce industrially, and I can make a case that we can get along just fine with 50-90% less of it.
And we're already well past the point of ending Climate Change, unless you have CO2 scrubbing tech that is scalable in your back pocket.