That asshole figured out ways to exploit those who want to "save the world" and promote "technological progress" all for his own self-aggrandizement and wealth.
Everything he is celebrated for is garbage.
Three things that will save the world are the economic and political empowerment of women, unrestricted access to birth control and realistic sex education, and rising living standards for all eight billion of us.
To reduce per capita environmental footprints we need to abandon car culture, no matter how those cars are powered. We need to rebuild our cities to make them attractive places where car ownership is unnecessary.
Like it or not we've built a world economy that's dependent on high density energy resources, mostly fossil fuels. If we don't quit fossil fuels entirely the world will burn and billions of us will suffer and die. Solar and wind power are incapable of displacing fossil fuels entirely, that experiment is done, the numbers are in, so we'll have to rely on nuclear power.
We don't need Starlink in the cities and I don't want it in wilderness areas. Let the wild be wild. Let the skies be clear. If you can't get internet in a place, and it's important to you, don't live there.
Last but not least, natural humans will never have a significant presence in outer space beyond low earth orbit. Should our civilization survive, in spite of sociopaths like Musk, the solar system will belong to our intellectual offspring, synthetic beings that can walk around naked on the surface of places like Mars.
Even today, scientific research in space beyond LEO is best done by robots.
Musk shows the world who he is again and again. People need to quit buying his shit.
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