Reinventing Industry And Technology To Regenerate Nature

Reinventing Industry And Technology To Regenerate Nature

Lorin Fries: You've described today's industries as net negative for humanity, and you advocate for transformational shifts.. Tom Chi: Humanity needs to become a net positive to nature - to actively regenerate and restore through our actions.. Nature has the capacity, through terrestrial soils, to absorb about ten times that capacity.. I'm aiming for an actually healthy planet, returning atmospheric carbon to where it was before the Industrial Revolution.. If you can do things that are healthier to nature, and do them at even more competitive unit economics, then you give people the choice to either spend less and do better by the planet, or spend more and do worse by it.. Chi: I look for disruptive, deep tech that radically rewrites unit economics in a way that effectively destroys industries that are negative to nature or creates industries that are generative to it.. All air conditioners require refrigerants, which are the most potent class of greenhouse gas that we're regularly using in industry.. Compare that to when that photon strikes a leaf and helps that plant to grow.. Thermal stress bleached the majority of the Hawaiian Islands in one year, and roughly 10% of all coral reefs in the