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> know very well that in 200 years the world > won’t look much like the world we’re living in now." This will happen not because of AI or nuclear fusion reacto
by frabbit 8y ago
> know very well that in 200 years the world
> won’t look much like the world we’re living in now."
This will happen not because of AI or nuclear fusion reactors or space travel or lab-grown meat.
I love Curtis's documentaries and agree with the central thesis that the models/stories to describe the world leave us trapped and need to be switched for better ones, but I think he is underestimating the potential for Climate Destruction to force a reconfiguration.
Politicians have always been mountebanks surfing on the wave of change initiated by either physical realities or collective imaginings... they don't create new models, they just latch onto whatever seems opportune.
- jules-jules 8y agoBased on his repeated mention of climate change in the interview, I wouldn't conclude that he is disregarding the possibility of climate change reconfiguring human civilization, rather, I'd venture that it is perhaps so obvious, that he failed to mention it?
- frabbit 8y agoI'm not sure. Although it is an excellent interview it feels like some follow-up would be good on a couple of points, one of them being whether he believes that climate destruction is going to leave anything resembling a civilization behind. There is a slight suggestion that he believes that liberal pessimism is ignoring some wonderful new opportunities inherent in the complete destruction of a stable, predictable climate. Also he completely ignores that the Corbyn manifesto and recent speaking tours have emphasized that a reshaping of the UK economy to emphasize green jobs in a low-growth, post-Brexit world is exactly the sort of inspiring leadership which claims is lacking. I suspect he just does not want to look at what the left of the Labour Party is proposing.