Unsurprisingly, we get the usual negativity in response to serious suggestions (Mike Ixer honourably excluded from this!): “I need my car” (lol! No one’s taking it away from you!), a truly weird claim that I would “denegrate [sic] … teleportation” (eh?), and stuff about “karma” (simply daft).
So let’s turn things completely around, and look at it from the opposite direction. We face, it is clear, two major threats::
the health burden of atmospheric pollution: in 2019, the equivalent of between 3,600 to 4,100 premature deaths (61,800 to 70,200 life years lost) and untold serious morbidity caused by pollution in London alone (shorturl.at/ftuJS) and
the existential effects of global heating, including but not limited to increases in the frequency of extreme weather events, including fires and flooding (which will drive millions of refugees to escape it) and the effects of desertification in drastically affecting the world’s food supplies (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/)
Assuming that no one outside the lunatic anti-vaxxer fringe seriously denies the reality of these threats, I would like to challenge the naysayers here to say:
WHAT. WOULD. YOU. DO?
I'll wait for your positive suggestions, but frankly, given past experience, I'm not very hopeful. But surprise me!.
Richard Carter ● 1243d