Global Warming is real but i'm optimistic!

 Being fair I think there are valid and real arguments for both sides of the global warming debate. And in a way this debate has been a precursor to the ever growing opposing views across the world where each side thinks it's all or nothing and thinks the other side is completely wrong.

In my view the world isn't black or white, or a place where things need to only be Yes or No!. It's more of a kaleidoscope of options which are ever-changing and hence many of these debates are difficult as they aren't static and there's so much that it's unknown.

My take is that global warming is happening but I honestly have no idea how bad or how little of a problem it is. Yes, the last 100 years are the hottest on record and stats show that the trend is for this to increase. But I can also argue that looking at 100 years in a million of years history might not be completely right. But either way, it's impacting us and it poses a challenge on the medium term.

Europe is having a record heat wave this week, South Africa had a massive snowstorm yesterday. These aren't patterns that make much sense so clearly something is happening! And not doing something is akin to seeing a crime being committed and pretending it's not happening. 

As of now there aren't many global scale solutions or even plans put in place (I don't count political agreements in somewhat BS conferences as a path to action....COP anyone?) but that doesn't mean that there aren't possible solutions. I truly believe that this is one if not the most critical area where innovation is going to play a major role in the next 20-25 years. 

the solutions that technology and new companies will devise are probably not even being imagined today but they will come - why i believe so? Because the human race keeps innovating and improving living conditions and finding solutions to problems and progress is exponential. I'm very positive of this.

Some of you might know this and some not. But at the end of  19th century, before cars were common and people transported themselves in horse driven carriages, most major cities were facing a massive pollution and sanitary disaster. Horse's shit and the amount of shit that they were producing was making cities filthy to the point that it was a major health concern and even newspapers used to say that at this pace in a few decades everyone will be living under nine feet of manure!

Having a place in a basements or street level was terrible as you pretty much lived next to poop. In 1898 at the world's first international urban planning conference in NY, this topic was forefront and no solution could be found and seemed civilization and urban progress was doomed. 

But necessity is the mother of innovation and Henry ford and his mass produced vehicles as well as electric trams and motor buses pretty much solved this problem and now the manure crisis is something that was a blimp in history. Fast forward not even 15 years and by 1912 this problem had been pretty much resolved. 

Damn Henry Ford! Why couldn't you go electric then? 

So in the way that automobiles and technology solved one of the potential devastating challenges to human growth and cities, I believe that new solutions will emerge for the global warming challenges we face (and if global warming isn't real..oh well... we have new technology and new innovation in any case that will lead to even better things!