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People don't need computers either, nor software engineers. Let's be honest. We don't really need any of this. Right?

• Isinlor 6y ago
  We can do computing and everything that works on electricity in 100% sustainable way. We don't know how to fly in a sustainable way, nor is flying necessary.
• onion2k 6y ago
  I suspect the efficiency and productivity gains from information technology mean computers and software engineering actually reduce the effect of climate change by improving most industries more than they contribute to climate change directly, but I don't have any hard evidence for that.
• baron_harkonnen 6y ago
  Food production is heavily dependent on fossil fuels. We have used fossil fuels to prop up the carrying capacity of humans on the planet quite a bit. This is why it is really important to ask questions about what we really need, and if we're at all interested in human survival in the future, we need make serious decision to scale down the economy soon. Of course I'm not very optimistic that this will happen.
  • Vecr 6y ago
    How much of that fossil fuel use in regards to food would be impossible to replace with nuclear power and/or mobile batteries?