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This just made me think of an interesting point. We’re basically running humanity as a whole like a startup. We’re consuming resources like crazy, just running
by sudhirj 9y ago
This just made me think of an interesting point. We’re basically running humanity as a whole like a startup. We’re consuming resources like crazy, just running full speed ahead to a future where the loans taken in the present will be offset by some kind of technological revolution - fusion power, weather control, large scale desalination, drone reforestation and ocean cleanup, underground builds, clean energy and space elevators.
People do actually like nature. When technology advances far enough, humans will use it to restore nature again, not necessarily because we feel obligated to, but because it sells houses.
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- hobochili 9y agoIt seems a strange notion to restore nature with advancements in technology. Restore it to what, how it was before technology? It is a nice thought, I guess, but it won't be Nature. It will be Nature: Restored. That is, something else.
- CalRobert 9y ago"When technology advances far enough, " This is not a given. It presupposes the continued existence of modern civilization. Who spends time researching carbon sequestration when their flooded neighbors from the next city over are trying to take your resources by force? Also,the atmosphere is the ultimate tragedy of the commons problem, and we haven't fixed it in decades of trying. The planet will return to a sustainable state. Sadly the loss of nearly all vertebrates and billions of dead is sustainable. Hell, so is Venus. Saying how great things are while dancing on top of the landmine, as this article is doing in a sense, seems foolhardy.