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I fear the one-two punch of disproportionate use of energy coupled with rampant world-wide inequality (in both resources and income) result in those who caused

I fear the one-two punch of disproportionate use of energy coupled with rampant world-wide inequality (in both resources and income) result in those who caused the issues having little reason to care about the result. In a democratic country, how will a leader convince the population to care about this if the country is rich and currently is unaffected? Well, we're about to see how successful or unsuccessful they might be- so far, it's not looking great. Furthermore - in the classic phrase: reduce, reuse and recycle. The most important of the three is reduction - how can we reduce consumption in a capitalist world that values mindless consumption and advertising to promote more mindless consumption? How many of us work for companies that directly or indirectly promote mindless waste of resources and endless consumption? This is not a TV show - a happy ending is not guaranteed.

PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
> In a democratic country, how will a leader convince the population to care about this if the country is rich and currently is unaffected Depends on the definition of "unaffected". I'm not sure that the Pacific Northwest, nor the Southwest nor the West would necessarily accept the "unaffected" label. Can they afford to smooth over the impact by using more energy & money? To some extent, certainly, but not entirely.
bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Just look at Covid response. The rich countries are thinking "Us first" and are just doing symbolic gestures to help the poorer ones. Just like humans would try to save themselves first, even countries in unions like the EU shut down borders between each other when the virus first came there. On the topic of waste, I had a realization that even as developers we're contributing to a lot of waste. We want conveniences, like inefficient frameworks so you can just write HTML and CSS instead of native UI, and we get to have these conveniences because processors are getting faster, but on the consumer side, it means top of the line hardware from 10 years ago might now be too slow to render a webpage, and is ending up as e-waste...

PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago

> In a democratic country, how will a leader convince the population to care about this if the country is rich and currently is unaffected Depends on the definition of "unaffected". I'm not sure that the Pacific Northwest, nor the Southwest nor the West would necessarily accept the "unaffected" label. Can they afford to smooth over the impact by using more energy & money? To some extent, certainly, but not entirely.

bellyfullofbac 5y ago

Just look at Covid response. The rich countries are thinking "Us first" and are just doing symbolic gestures to help the poorer ones. Just like humans would try to save themselves first, even countries in unions like the EU shut down borders between each other when the virus first came there. On the topic of waste, I had a realization that even as developers we're contributing to a lot of waste. We want conveniences, like inefficient frameworks so you can just write HTML and CSS instead of native UI, and we get to have these conveniences because processors are getting faster, but on the consumer side, it means top of the line hardware from 10 years ago might now be too slow to render a webpage, and is ending up as e-waste...