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What worries me is the effect economic growth has had on the environment. Over the last 50 years we've killed most of the vertebrata animals on the planet and m
by patientplatypus 8y ago
What worries me is the effect economic growth has had on the environment. Over the last 50 years we've killed most of the vertebrata animals on the planet and most of the fish in the oceans, plastic particles are in the water and food supply and cause serious harm to human and animal health, and global climate change is looking serious in the next 10 years. We have no real basis or knowledge of how to maintain a global economy without poisoning the planet. To fix it will take global cooperation on a scale that's never been shown to be possible.
On the upside I don't worry about saving for retirement because I don't think that I (or a great many many people) will live through the coming cataclysm to see it.
- LifeLiverTransp 8y agoWell genengineered counter measures for the rescue. We allready have invasive, hardened species gaining foothold. Bamboo has survived 4000 years of boom and bust chinese civilisation. Ambrosia and other "dangerous" plants are dangerous enough to make a whole forrest uninhabitable for unprotected humans. Lots of weeds are 100 % resistant to multiple herbizides. Several species could very soon discover, that carrying infected material from plantation to plantation is a pretty good attack vector on our monocultures. Nature is not weak, and sitting there and just taking the hits. We going to get some hits back, very soon.