Please Fund More Science
While you&#x27;re at it, fix everything else too.<p>I&#x27;m not being snarky, I mean it.  Bucky Fuller calculated that we could solve most of the world&#x27;s problems for about $25B (this was in the 70&#x27;s, so adjust for inflation and whatnot).<p>He was thinking big: houses built in factories (like cars) and delivered to the site by helicopter.  You could roll out a whole neighborhood in a week or two.  They had waterless toilets that captures BMs in little plastic bags, hyper-efficient &quot;fog&quot; showers.  ( Legend has it that the project was spiked because it would put too many electricians and carpenters and so on out of business. )<p>Or see his Old Man River&#x27;s City project ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Old_Man_River's_City_project" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Old_Man_River's_City_project</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;solutions.synearth.net&#x2F;2002&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;solutions.synearth.net&#x2F;2002&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;</a> )  A city in a single building with ten million square feet of enclosed open space.  Add some applied ecology (&quot;Permaculture&quot;) and you&#x27;ve got an arcology ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Arcology" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Arcology</a> ).<p>We have pretty much all the answers, the problem is to align our power with our values.