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Elon Musk, planet citizen @on a mission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tesla,_electric_cars

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Elon's thinking, a planet citizen's thinking:

From GrnPolicy: Elon Musk spoke of how the iconic whole earth "Blue Marble" photo of Earth had inspired him to dream and to move his technology plans toward a space & earth connection...

On Earth's atmosphere, our planet's http://www.thinbluelayer.com 'thin blue layer': "We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.”

On vision: "Going from PayPal, I thought well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity? Not from the perspective, 'what's the best way to make money,' which is okay, but, it was really 'what do I think is going to most affect the future of humanity.'"

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• "We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world."

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• "Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not."

• "The answer was we thought it could be done."

• "I came to the conclusion that really we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask."

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• "[Physics is] a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there."

• "The greater the change to the chemical composition of the physical, chemical makeup of the oceans and atmosphere [due to increased carbon emissions], the greater the long-term effect will be... [W]hy would you run this crazy experiment to see how bad it'll be? We know it's at least some bad, and the overwhelming scientific consensus is that it'll be really bad."

• On progress: "I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."

• "I have tried to learn as much as possible from prior attempts.*

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On perseverance: "If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it."

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