“Iron
Man” actor Robert Downey Jr. spoke at this year’s
re:MARS conference in Las Vegas — an event hosted by Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos — about how robotics, AI, and other advanced technologies could
be the solution for reversing humanity’s destructive carbon footprint.
Downey
Jr. announced a brand-new initiative called Footprint Coalition, which
sounds like something the fictional Tony Stark, who he plays in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe, would come up with.
“Recently,
I was at a table with super smart, impressive, expert folks about six months
ago, and the following statement was made: ‘between robotics and technology, we
could probably clean up the planet significantly, if not entirely within a
decade,'” he said, as quoted
by Business Insider.
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