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Personally, I think it's possible to keep and scale our current lifestyle with changes like growing meat in vats instead of on animals, better power management,
by afthonos 7y ago
Personally, I think it's possible to keep and scale our current lifestyle with changes like growing meat in vats instead of on animals, better power management, green energy, etc. But that's more faith than knowledge speaking.
The big problem is that even those changes are hard. It is much simpler to have giant wars that cull 5-10% of the world population. In fact, we might end up with both: giant wars, and the survivors deciding they don't want more such wars and trying to fix the root cause of them.
Assuming civilization doesn't collapse wholesale, of course…
- monk_e_boy 7y agoLots of people think lile you, gambling todays poor behaviour on solutions that MAY come tomorrow, next week or never. We need to change today. But it’s very hard.
- afthonos 7y agoI'm…not sure how you took "5-10% of the world population will probably need to die for humanity to try to fix this" as an endorsement of current policies. We do need change today. I'm making two statements: (1) I think/hope technology may actually be enough. (2) But that doesn't matter, because we're unwilling to even make the small changes that encourage better technologies.
- bilbo0s 7y ago>wars that cull 5-10% of the world population Global war today is a good deal more serious prospect than global war in the early 20th century. Not sure you could have a global war without culling a whole lot more than 5 to 10% of people. Any war between Russia, or China, or the EU, or the US, is going to take out a very large number of people. 5% - 10% is extremely optimistic.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoOne bomb on London takes out 20% of England.