> 1. I am not arguing that slats solution is the best solution or the only solution. I think that if it drives awareness of the issue and eventually leads us to a better solution, then it’s a success in a backwards kind of way, even if it doesn’t “succeed”
Critial positions argue that there are already valid solutions, and that boom-based technologies (and similar) are a lost cause. In this perspective, improvements to the latter technologies are nothing short of quixotic.
> I’m willing to bet that most of that 20 mil would not have gone to other solutions anyway. So it’s not taking money from other things in reality.
20 millions, in the form of beach cleaning, would have cleaned a lot of garbage from the ocean[s].
Critial positions argue that there are already valid solutions, and that boom-based technologies (and similar) are a lost cause. In this perspective, improvements to the latter technologies are nothing short of quixotic.
> I’m willing to bet that most of that 20 mil would not have gone to other solutions anyway. So it’s not taking money from other things in reality.
20 millions, in the form of beach cleaning, would have cleaned a lot of garbage from the ocean[s].