I think it’s a fool’s game to say that better technology isn’t better. If you’re getting a knee replaced and it’s an outpatient procedure you do in an afternoon that’s a really cool and good thing.

The discussion had by learned people regarding climate change, to my understanding, is that we’ve crossed over the event horizon for catastrophic damage from climate change. It’s in a similar vein to pollution in the ocean and the like. Something to the effect of suggesting if we had 0 emissions from today onward we’d still experience repercussions. I don’t have a good citation nor the will to seek one out, unfortunately

So it’s not like easily built housing, renewable energy powered technology, and easily grown food to sustain climate refugees while an effort is made to un-desert their home is a bad thing or an unworthy goal. I have a sneaking suspicion that “technology will save us” is a way of misunderstanding the situation the same way someone might think you’re perfect to date if only you weren’t a communist. I doubt every climate scientist is a Luddite. But they’d probably groan if you suggest carbon capture will reset the clock like it’s a novel idea.