Title: I guess this is sort of an open-ended question, but I just wanted to know if people on HN were hopeful about solving environmental change&#x2F;damage.<p>Last June is now officially the hottest June ever recorded. I guess you can add that to the laundry list of environmental issues we have. My worry is that its looking more and more like we need some sort of technological miracle (or everyone <i>everywhere</i> just stops buying <i>most stuff</i>). And tech seems to be a step function - sometimes you get big things like the Internet and the Engine which can spawn lots of smaller things. But those big things historically have seemed to come about by chance and happenstance as much as hard work. I sometimes worry that we might not solve the environmental crisis because we just won&#x27;t get lucky.<p>Does anyone else feel this way? Or are people here mostly hopeful that this thing will all work itself out (please say how!)? Anyone here working on that next big thing?<p>PS<p>If you don&#x27;t believe in a coming environmental catastrophe, that&#x27;s fine and I&#x27;d be happy to have your opinion on why you think so in this thread. But tin foil hatters and political partisans are boring and this isn&#x27;t really what this thread is about - please spend your time elsewhere. Thanks!
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