{"id":25069,"date":"2016-04-27T08:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T15:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/if-you-care-about-the-earth-vote-for-the-least-religious-presidential-candidate"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:28","slug":"if-you-care-about-the-earth-vote-for-the-least-religious-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/if-you-care-about-the-earth-vote-for-the-least-religious-presidential-candidate","title":{"rendered":"If You Care About the Earth, Vote for the Least Religious Presidential Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My new Vice Motherboard article on environmentalism and why going green isn\u2019t enough. Only radical technology can restore the world to a pristine condition\u2014and that requires politicians not afraid of the future:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m worried that conservatives like Cruz will try to stop new technologies that will change our battle in combating a degrading Earth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But there are people who can save the endangered species on the planet. And they will soon dramatically change the nature of animal protection. Those people may have little to do with wildlife, but their genetics work holds the answer to stable animal population levels in the wild. In as little as five years, we may begin stocking endangered wildlife in places where poachers have hunted animals to extinction. We\u2019ll do this like we stock trout streams in America. Why spend resources in a losing battle to save endangered wildlife from being poached when you can spend the same amount to boost animal population levels ten-fold? Maye even 100-fold. This type of thinking is especially important in our oceans, which we\u2019ve bloody well fished to near death.<\/p>\n

As a US Presidential candidate<\/a> who believes that all problems can be solved by science, I believe the best way to fix all of our environmental dilemmas is via technological innovation\u2014not attempting to reverse our carbon footprint, recycle more, or go green.<\/p>\n

As noted earlier, the obvious reason going green doesn\u2019t work\u2014even though I still think it\u2019s a good disciplinary policy for humans\u2014is the sheer impossibility of getting the developed world to stop\u2026 well, developing. You simply cannot tell an upcoming Chinese family not to drive cars. And you can\u2019t tell a burgeoning Indian city to only use renewable resources when it\u2019s cheaper to use fossil fuels. You also can\u2019t tell indigenous Brazilian parents to stop poaching when their children are hungry. These people will not listen. They want what they want, and are willing to partially destroy the planet to get it\u2014especially when they know the developed world already possesses it.<\/p>\n

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My new Vice Motherboard article on environmentalism and why going green isn\u2019t enough. Only radical technology can restore the world to a pristine condition\u2014and that requires politicians not afraid of the future: I\u2019m worried that conservatives like Cruz will try to stop new technologies that will change our battle in combating a degrading Earth But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,12,412,5,31,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-existential-risks","category-genetics","category-geopolitics","category-policy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67631,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25069\/revisions\/67631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}