A friend sent me this tweet and inspired me to get back to work on an essay pulling my plans and suggestions together into a coherent presentation. I& #39;ve been working on it and am making some progress. https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1314287213400789004">https://twitter.com/HillaryCl...

The Hillary tweet above was referring to this "prize." https://twitter.com/EarthshotPrize/status/1314083108690550784?s=19">https://twitter.com/Earthshot...

But as I looked closer, Hillary was wrong. You can& #39;t "send your ideas..."
It appears that "new" ideas can only be found by established experts. I presume this means the new ideas will be very similar to the ones which are currently not working. https://twitter.com/EarthshotPrize/status/1314503686064943107?s=19">https://twitter.com/Earthshot...

However, I have needed to produce this essay for some time, and I am continuing to work on it.
I don& #39;t care about the prize. Money, to me, has little attraction. I have enough and don& #39;t care about more.
The accepted "solutions" are, quite literally, science fiction. So...

Presuming that none of my 12k+ Twitter readers are "Earthshot nominators" I won& #39;t wind up participating in this event, my personal "biggest boldest" ideas won& #39;t be in the running, and the odds are that the big, bold ideas which capture the prize will be easily recognized already.

But... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷" title="Person shrugging" aria-label="Emoji: Person shrugging">
I& #39;m used to it.