Robert Downey Jr. Announces “Footprint Coalition” To Clean Up The Planet With Sophisticated Tech

Jun 06, 2019 by apost team

Actor Robert Downey Jr., known most recently for his role in the “Avengers” movies seems to be turning into a real-life Tony Stark. He was recently at the Amazon Re:Mars conference in Las Vegas this week as the keynote speaker. During his speech, he announced “The Footprint Coalition,’ a very Tony Stark-esque initiative that uses technology and robotics to help the environment.

Variety reports that the initiative’s launch will be in April 2020, and so far the website only has a basic homepage with a newsletter sign-up form. He did not share much more about the secretive project but did divulge that he was inspired to create this coalition among a roundtable of experts. “God I love experts,” He said in his talk, “They’re like Wikipedia with character defects.”

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Climate change is getting worse: according to a Guardian report, CO2 levels are rising at a rapid rate for the seventh year in a row. The environmental predicament has unnerved Downey Jr. He said, “I have this quiet sense of crisis. I’m a one-man carbon footprint nightmare colossus.”

But he is hopeful. “Between robotics and nanotechnology, we could probably clean up the planet significantly if not entirely within a decade,” Downey Jr. told the crowd. He also promised that if he achieves his goal and actually makes a dent, then he’ll throw the “nuttiest” retirement party in eleven years.

You can watch the keynote speech in the video below:

What do you think about Robert Downey Jr.’s latest initiative? Will it make a dent in cleaning up the planet? Let your friends know what you think.