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> I think you'd be hard pressed to find a time in history when life was better than it is today. That's nice and dandy but what good is it if we can only susta
by pantalaimon 10y ago
> I think you'd be hard pressed to find a time in history when life was better than it is today.
That's nice and dandy but what good is it if we can only sustain that maybe another 50 years if we're lucky?
- mirimir 10y agoIt really is too late, I think. There's too much momentum, and too little control. It's like that situation just before the Titanic hit the iceberg.
- Touche 10y agoI guess if we had foresight we could have prevented the industrial revolution which would had (likely) prevented climate change. Of course, the industrial revolution was a force of economic pressure, not a decision the world came together and decided on in unity. So to prevent the industrial revolution would have required a suppression of freedom and property rights unlike has ever existed in history. On a world scale.