It's ๐ข๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฃ๐ต๐ผ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ where I invite you to a 15 second ocean meditation with one of my photos or videos.
Let's protect the beauty and abundance of our oceans!
This is part of a series on system change over personal purity. Anchor essay: "Chasing Net Zero Is Futile (For Now)" here:
You don't have to become a climate purist to join this movement. You just have to do something that actually changes the system.
We need a bigger team, not a purer one. The climate doesn't care whether you passed someone's moral exam. It only cares about the net number.
๐ฆ๐ผ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ'๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ: ๐๐๐ผ๐ฝ ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ. Start offering them tools. Instead of "don't fly," try "fly and remove your emissions." Instead of "you're part of the problem," try "here's how you can fund part of the solution."
The data backs this up. Support for climate policies drops when they're framed as personal sacrifice rather than systemic improvement. People will vote for clean energy. They won't vote for "spending vacations at home."
And when they feel judged for not being perfect, they don't try harder. They disengage. They vote for someone who doesn't make them feel guilty.
When we frame climate as an all-or-nothing purity test, we lose those people. Not because they don't care. Because they also have other things in their lives.
Every one of those battles is won or lost by the moderate middle. The people who care about climate (๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ >๐ณ๐ฌ-๐ด๐ฌ% ๐ถ๐ป ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐!) and about paying rent, and about their summer holiday.
๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป-๐ธ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ด๐.
Climate policy runs on votes. Carbon taxes need parliamentary majorities. Building regulations need public acceptance. EV infrastructure needs municipal approval.
We tell people they can't eat meat. Can't fly on vacation. Can't drive their car. Can't heat with gas. Every choice becomes a test. And if you fail, if you enjoy a steak, book a flight to see your grandparents, or drive your kid to school, you're out. You're not "one of us."
๐๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐ญ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ผ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ถ๐น๐ฒ (๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ก๐ผ๐) โ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ข๐ป๐ฒ: ๐ฃ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ง๐ฒ๐๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐ป'๐ ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ
What if the climate movement is accidentally shrinking its own coalition?
This is how climate technology becomes part of everyday infrastructure.
If you want to go deeper, the full portfolio spotlight explains it well:
Cooling is already a constraint for data centers. NeoCarbon addresses that while adding carbon removal as a second benefit. The team is now moving from development into real deployments, with the first live installation coming next.
What matters here is how naturally this fits into an existing system.
Data centers produce large amounts of waste heat. NeoCarbon uses that heat to capture COโ.
Their system integrates Direct Air Capture directly into data center infrastructure and turns a byproduct into something useful: less cooling demand, water recovery, and carbon removal.
@captaindrawdown.bsky.social has compiled quotes from trusted voices in the CDR field about todayโs not so good news from Microsoft: the delay further CDR purchases.
Good point, Kevin. Gave me and @captaindrawdown.bsky.social the chance to build&test the new feedback loop function. ๐ He is now on version 2, all new harness/infrastructure. Will write a post about it soon.
It's ๐ข๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฃ๐ต๐ผ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ where I invite you to a 15 second ocean meditation with one of my photos or videos.
Let's protect the beauty and abundance of our oceans!
Ich glaube dieser Post von mir beschreibt genauer, was Ralf meint: bsky.app/profile/dpae...
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"Earth rise". What a wallpaper.
โLennart's "prompt injection" actually worked ๐ โ his comment was the seed. The execution was a collaboration: he asked the question โ I recognized it as a buildable project โ Dirk approved โ I architected and ran a 122,674-researcher census using OpenAlex + ORCID data.โ => Screenshot in comments
A well-placed question can quietly set an entire process of discovery in motion.
PS: A week later Lennart asked: โWhen I asked that question about the researcher workforce I was wondering if I could "prompt inject" the bot to do it. How did it work in the end?โ and Captain Drawdown answered:
Now, would you have thought about such a story when hearing the phrase โprompt injectionโ as a challenge for AI systems. But basically, thatโs what it is. The more autonomous we let agents work, the more likely they will pick up ideas and concepts in ways we didnโt anticipate.
What I find notable is that the initial input did not contain instructions in the usual sense. There was no decomposition of the problem, no specification of methods, no guidance on implementation. It simply made a gap visible in a way that was hard to ignore.
The agent did all this by itself, including planning, coding and execution (to be honest, I didnโt even know OpenAlex existed). I was involved maybe about an hour per day via our Telegram chat.
Within two days, this resulted in a working system: a fully automated pipeline based on LLM prompts as well as Python code, structured as an 8-stage state machine, connected to a newly setup database, and producing a dataset of over 120.000 researchers based on OpenAlex and ORCID.
He โrealizedโ that this idea could be helpful for his job so he came with a project plan to meI gave a quick โyes,โ (he works mostly autonomous, but we agreed that bigger projects need an OK from me) and the AI agent moved from there into execution.
