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Pretty much. Life for the average person before the industrial revolution was terrible. It only became decent after the industrial revolution and even that took
by Mirioron 7y ago
Pretty much. Life for the average person before the industrial revolution was terrible. It only became decent after the industrial revolution and even that took time. It was built on fossil fuels and consumption.
The only way you can reduce consumption is by increasing efficiency. Limiting people in the long term is not going to work unless you create an authoritarian government.
- mrob 7y ago>The only way you can reduce consumption is by increasing efficiency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
- Mirioron 7y agoMy point was that increases in efficiency is the only thing people will accept. Everything else will cause people to not accept it, berceuse their quality of life suffers as a result.