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Most of human ingenuity is based on the consumption of cheap finite resources. Every time we had new tecnologies it results in more consuption of resources. We
by lcam84 7y ago
Most of human ingenuity is based on the consumption of cheap finite resources. Every time we had new tecnologies it results in more consuption of resources.
We need to listen what the science is telling us for 40 years now with the report from the club of rome "limits of growth", and slow down our consuption levels.
Apply new techonologies as an excuse to keep growth (green growth) will accelerate the degradation of the environment.
Edit: typos
- HPsquared 7y agoIsn't work done for environmental protection counted under 'growth'? (provided someone is paying for it) - it's adding value, after all.
- lcam84 7y agoIt depends. If it generate any kind of money exchange it counts to GDP. But there are many solutions that don't generate growth (like walking to work instead of using other means of transportation) The way we measure growth is nuts. the best way to acknowledge that is to watch this speech from Robert F Kennedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77IdKFqXbUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77IdKFqXbUY
- novalis78 7y agoI can’t emphasize enough to check out Dr Robert Zubrin’s work, founder of the Mars Society. In this particular context his book ‘Merchants of despair’ a great resource on Antihumanism of the Malthusian flavor.