I think that people can solve all of our problems, if we could just work together. In fact, I think that solutions of many of our problems already exist in pieces scattered here and there all over the world. For example, all over the planet the Sun is shining on thousands of miles of roads and highways, and this energy is wasted, doing nothing useful for humanity or the Earth. Somewhere on one of those roads there might be a company or a person with a way of producing a translucent substance, both cheap enough and tough enough to be used to surface roads. Some other company on a different street has a way of making cheap solar cells, but they are not tough enough to surface roads with. Obviously, if we combine the two products we could make all the thousands of miles of highway all across America into a network of solar cells, replacing a bunch of polluting power plants.

One problem with this idea, among many, is that the people with the translucent substance and the people with the cheap solar cells probably don