Imagine that you are a person who wants to do something useful about climate change, particularly by getting your Members of Congress to pay attention to the issue. Along come some techies, and they give you ClimateBot, a tool that makes it "insanely easy" to convert your text messages into payments for a gasoline-powered billboard reading "Stop Climate Change" sitting on the street across Capitol Hill. You'd probably understand why that was a stupid idea, right? Even if it's really simple to turn a text message into a micro-payment to run a generator, you'd kind of know that pumping more carbon into the atmosphere with your texting wasn't a good idea.Well, consider Resistbot, a text-to-fax tool built by Eric Ries,...
