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> people will not recognize the real changes needed to build a more sustainable world I'm a bit more pessimistic. Consumerism and over-consumption is an open-e
by aaron-santos 7y ago
> people will not recognize the real changes needed to build a more sustainable world
I'm a bit more pessimistic. Consumerism and over-consumption is an open-eyed march toward doom. Educating (even by collapse) doesn't change the failure to coordinate. When the incentives are structured to trade values for temporary rosperity "The process continues until all other values that can be traded off have been – in other words, until human ingenuity cannot possibly figure out a way to make things any worse." [1]
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/