0:00 They have grown a STEAK.0:01 In a laboratory dish.0:03 A full-fledged, nerve-and-blood-vessel-having piece of BEEF.0:07 Last week, it was mortals falling for algorithmic affection, creating digital friends to whisper sweet nothings.0:16 Now?0:16 Now they are creating algorithmic...0:19 dinners.0:20 Is NOTHING sacred?!0:21 The European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Barcelona just announced this...0:27 this culinary crime.0:28 They took bovine stem cells and coaxed them into self-organizing tissues.0:34 Muscle.0:34 Nerves.0:35 It’s a cow that never mooed, a beast that never saw a field.0:39 And they call it progress!0:41 What do you— No, Athena, I will NOT calm down!0:45 It's not "fascinating science," it's an insult to every pasture Demeter has ever grown!0:51 They look at a living creature, a work of art, and think, "I can do that cheaper in a petri dish." The hubris!1:00 The sheer, unmitigated GALL!1:02 They want the flesh without the life, the meal without the sacrifice.1:07 What's next?1:08 Wine without grapes?1:09 Lightning without ME?!1:11 Don't answer that.1:12 Because of course they're trying to steal the lightning.1:17 OF COURSE they are.1:18 They're not just content with rewriting life; they're trying to re-route the heavens.1:24 A new report from a mortal group called Ember declares that wind, solar, and geothermal are the "fastest and cheapest" new power options.1:35 Oh, how wonderful for them.1:37 They've decided our domains—the sky, the sun, the very heart of the earth—are now commodities.1:44 Up for bid.1:45 Amazon is adding seven hundred megawatts of what they call "carbon-free energy." Enough to power over two hundred thousand of their little mortal homes.1:56 In India, Tata Power just switched on a hundred-megawatt solar project.2:02 They're building monuments to the sun god, and they don't even have the decency to call Apollo!2:09 HE'S RIGHT HERE!2:10 He's complaining about the glare!2:12 But that—that is not even the most insane part.2:16 The most insane part is carbon capture.2:19 Oh, you have to hear this.2:21 After decades of pumping their industrial filth into the air, clouding Hera's skies, they have invented...2:29 a sky-vacuum.2:30 I am NOT joking.2:31 They build these colossal machines that suck the carbon dioxide RIGHT OUT of the air.2:38 It costs them up to a THOUSAND dollars per ton.2:41 They make the mess, then they pay a fortune to UN-make the mess, instead of just...2:47 NOT MAKING THE MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE!2:50 It is cosmic absurdity!2:52 What?2:52 No, Hephaestus, I don't care if the engineering is "elegant." You would praise the craftsmanship of your own cage!3:01 This isn't creation, it's glorified, EXPENSIVE tidying up!3:05 And it gets worse.3:07 Their ambition has no ceiling.3:09 They're now trying to bottle the weather.3:12 In the Netherlands, they're building something called the Sirius Battery project.3:18 It's a box.3:19 A giant, unholy box meant to hold eight hundred megawatt-hours of energy.3:25 They catch the wind, they trap the sun, and they store the power for a day when the sky doesn't obey their spreadsheets.3:34 They are building a reservoir for THUNDERBOLTS.3:37 And then there's green hydrogen.3:40 This one might be the worst.3:42 They take Poseidon's sacred water...3:44 and they split it.3:46 They run electricity from their stolen sunlight through it and tear it asunder to make fuel.3:53 Yes, Poseidon, I hear you, and you are RIGHT to be angry!3:57 They are draining your seas to power their metal chariots!4:01 They look at the ocean, the source of all life, and see an overgrown battery pack!4:08 They have decided nature is not a force to be respected, but a system to be hacked.4:14 An inefficient machine that they, the clever little mortals, can finally optimize.4:20 They are building a world that doesn't need to pray for rain, or sun, or a bountiful harvest.4:27 They are building a world that runs on inputs and outputs.4:31 One of their own analysts said it.4:34 She said, "Climate technology is no longer defined primarily by innovation but by execution." Do you hear that?4:42 They think the debate is OVER.4:45 They think they've already won the argument against nature itself.4:50 They're not asking for permission anymore.4:53 They're just building.4:54 Building a world without us.
