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All of those workers are out there moving *stuff* around: solar panels, wires, batteries.

Climate tech is *infrastructural*. As @debcha writes in her must-read 2023 book *How Infrastructure Works*, infrastructure is a gift we give to our descendants. Infrastructure projects rarely pay for themselves during the lives of the people who decide to build them:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/17/care-work/#charismatic-megaprojects

Climate tech also produces *gigantic*, diffused, uncapturable benefits.

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