Silicon Valley Ideology Will Ruin Us

The high tech innovators have their own ideas of what "radical solutions" means, when it comes to climate change. A couple of true believers from Miami Dade County are figuring out how to maintain capital accumulation and profit as South Florida gets pounded by hurricanes and the seas continue to rise. According to them, the answers will come from a new "global climate center for climate solutions" being built in New York. This can only happen though, if "it can avoid lengthy permitting processes and resident resistance, which often thwart new ideas, as it experiments with fresh approaches to the climate threat. These so-called sandboxes for innovation are where we can take risks, rapidly learn what options work and commercialize and scale them up." The high techies will save the planet if people and government regulation will just get out of their way. The smart people will go to their incubator and come up with brilliant solutions which they can scale up and "commercialize" and make billions off of. 3D printing sea walls, for instance. Resistance from people trying to protect ecosystems "thwart new ideas". Using crisis to make money is their idea of "radical" but of course it is the oldest play in the book. One of the authors, Galen Treuer, leads climate tech and economic innovation in Miami-Dade County’s Office of Economic Development. So we know what he gets paid to do. Of course this tech management is all dressed up in progressive development speak. We will "create vibrant , connected communities". Not sure who "we " is. It's all about "long-term well-being, which means adapting communities to be resilient, affordable, inclusive and economically viable in deeply rooted ways." These people are deeply rooted in Silicon Valley start-up ideology and have no real answers.