In addition to my reply to you on Twitter (@johnfurst). Technologically we can do so much, even in an economic way, but still a lot of resources are directed away and to waste.

It takes long term political commitment, which is harder and harder to achieve.

We have 40 years since Apollo 11 and the first moon landing.

Let us not forget.
If there were no NAZI Germany, Stalin, and Communism, … we wouldn’t probably have set
foot on our lunar companion out there.

As long as the bean counter have the saying (and it seems that not
even Obama, who started out with full energy, can change that so easily).

Seth Godin’s book /// Tribes – We Need You To Lead Us /// is full of example
how one person can make a change.

BUT, never alone. The trick is not money.
It is engaging people who care and let it grow.

Yours
John

I’m not a fan of any geo-engineering proposals. In my view, we’ve done quite enough to the planet’s environment, thank you very much. We don’t even understand all the effects of what we’ve already done. Geo-engineering is the height of technological hubris and could well be our undoing. The way forward is backward–to living harmoniously within the means of our only home. Fortunately, the depletion of fossil fuels may soon limit the additional damage we cause, and render moot such brash “solutions.”

I rather like your question about a funding source for environmental entrepreneurs between governmental support and venture capital. I have been working on an idea that may just help in that regard.

Thanks for alerting me to this post. Remember the flip side of the old saw “Red Skies at night; sailors delight,” is “Red Skies in the morning; sailors take warning.”