Topics around climate change:<p>For example, why is it that many people doubt that humanity is responsible for global warming? Some work has been done on agnotology -- the study of the spread of doubt and ignorance -- already. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Agnotology" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Agnotology</a> And then: how can we offset the forces propagating doubt and ignorance? One of the goals of adding annotations to news with tools like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hypothes.is&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hypothes.is&#x2F;</a> would be to fact-check misinformation.<p>Energy: The cost of energy is asymptotically approaching zero particularly in solar. While free energy in itself is great, more interesting questions are: what are the limits of what we can make with it? What are the social repercussions of free energy and its corollaries? To what extent can we subsidize yeast factories -- which we know can manufacture everything from methyl halids (gasoline) to LSD -- to create other substances necessary to society?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;dn16989-yeast-and-bacterium-turned-into-gasoline-factory&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;dn16989-yeast-and-bacte...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;jun&#x2F;21&#x2F;scientists-make-lsd-from-microbes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;jun&#x2F;21&#x2F;scienti...</a><p>Geoengineering: Let&#x27;s assume we can&#x27;t stop the forces creating the CO2 that is warming the planet in time to avert catastrophic ecological collapse. What can we do to remove that CO2 from the atmosphere? Let&#x27;s get serious about studying man-made carbon sinks via the iron fertilization of algae blooms:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iron_fertilization" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iron_fertilization</a>