Whether or not something is bad for the environment has nothing to do with whether or not it is science. Also, the environment/climate will do just fine with heaps of CO2 and rising sea levels. Whether particular species (such has humans) do okay, is a different story. CO2 does not cause climate 'breakdown', it encourages climate change. I'm not sure what it would mean for the climate to 'break down'.
The question that matters here is what is worse for the environment (in terms of human-preferred environment) between the polystyrene and the (likely tiny amounts) of CO2? Turning something bad into something less bad is still a win.
I mostly agree with what you said, but
Little nitpick - houses are held together with nails because they are good enough and are cheaper than screws (slightly in manufacturing costs, and hugely in time spent during construction). Screws would be a lot better, and also make dismantling sections a bit easier.
It's not pointless. Once the technology is perfected, it should eventually become cheaper to grow lab meat than to grow actual animals.
Also, there are plenty of people that like meat, but don't eat it due to ethical concerns - so there is a market for it even if it is more expensive.
This would also be useful in situations like having fresh meat on Mars, or further out, where having actual animals would be prohibitively expensive in comparison.
I think it's fairly unimaginative and naive to call research into new technologies 'pointless'. Are you just angry because some vegans are annoying, so now you hate the idea of anything that could possibly further a vegan cause?
It's weird you got modded down for that comment.
That being said, the article you linked has already been updated to say there isn't going to be a price rise on the Switch 2:
Update: After a shocking report made headlines yesterday suggesting an inbound price hike on Switch 2, the DFC Intelligence firm via Forbes is clarifying its statement further – there perhaps won’t be a price jump at retail after all:
Apologies for the misunderstanding created on our part by not clarifying the reference to a 20% hardware price increase over the next two years applied to the hardware side in general and not just the Switch.
In the case of the Switch 2, we believe much of the 20% increase was already baked into the $450 price. It is not likely Nintendo will raise the price, and if they do, we don’t expect it to be 20%. Also much of that increase is in the form of NOT discounting prices. So not necessarily a price increase but where we model a 20% price decrease in the next year or so we have the prices holding steady.
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -- Herbert Hoover
