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It’s not an either or question. A devastated nature will also lead to less prosperity. We’re more in the realm of takin on debt we can never pay back.
by legulere 6y ago
It’s not an either or question. A devastated nature will also lead to less prosperity. We’re more in the realm of takin on debt we can never pay back.
- flyinglizard 6y agoIt was framed as an either-or choice in the headline. Between nature and prosperity - I’d absolutely pick prosperity; my hopes are that we’ll come full circle and use prosperity to repair nature (green tech and all that), so that perhaps ecologically destructive actions taken during the last few centuries will be more of a loan from nature to us than a permanent grant.
- cool_dude85 6y agoThe enlightened caveman, after whacking some other poor guy upside the head with a big club: "My hope is to use this food I took from you to develop new medical technologies to fix your shattered skull. This is more of a loan than a grant."
- flyinglizard 6y agoI just have to wonder how all those who chose nature over prosperity had the technological means to downvote me.