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> If we had clean fusion under our current values, we wouldn't live as we do today only cleaner. We would grow again until we hit more limits and had to live ag
by titzer 5y ago
> If we had clean fusion under our current values, we wouldn't live as we do today only cleaner. We would grow again until we hit more limits and had to live again under scarcity or natural calamity. Borlaug worked the second half his career to help people see the consequences of helping solve only part of our system but not the system.
It's almost as if a population of apes that evolved to live in groups of 200 individuals maximum and has survived only by constantly spreading to new areas once resources are depleted can't run a sustainable planetary society.
Every single trait that we need to run a sustainable planetary society is selected against in the local incentive system of both evolution, capitalism, and technological advancement.
Frankly, our greed is eating this planet. And we are greedy because the greedy strategy worked best (evolutionarily) up until now, and greed was baked into our genes by all the selection pressures of the many systems we are a part of and set up ourselves.