The Kardashev Scale: A Convenient Distraction from Climate Reality The latest salvo in the tech elite's crusade to save us all from ourselves has landed, and it's a doozy: Elon Musk's mantra for making the climate crisis disappear is to simply move energy production "off planet.
" This is, of course, the Kardashev scale, a theoretical framework that supposedly allows us to bypass our current ecological woes by harnessing the power of distant star systems.
Musk and his allies cite this concept as a solution to humanity's existential problems. However, let's be clear: this is not a serious proposal for addressing climate change.