Silicon Valley Could Save The World From Climate Change. But We Don't Want Them To.

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Tue, 05/26/2015 - 3:00am

Silicon Valley could save the planet. All they need to do is combine their entrepreneurial brilliance with an enormous infusion of cash, and, more importantly, have our society grant them the cultural permission to lead us to a green future. But we don't want that. And, frankly, that's why we peons annoy the titans of tech so much. Why won't we hand our environmental challenges to our top technologists to solve?

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