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On the environment and fauna, animals are going extinct (like the white rhino) so yes, we are running out of stuff. Trees—like Dominican mahogany grow really s
by mucholove 5y ago
On the environment and fauna, animals are going extinct (like the white rhino) so yes, we are running out of stuff.
Trees—like Dominican mahogany grow really slowly and now there are so few of them we have basically run out. I can name several other examples—most notably Guayacan.
There is a bunch of scarcity and destruction. I’m pretty sure we can fix them—but for the trees and the animals it’s unlikely that I get to experience them as was so in previous lifetimes.
It’s a shame we couldn’t manage them sustainably previously.
- cryptonector 5y agoSustainability requires wealth. You mention Dominican mahogany. Have you ever seen pictures of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic? They're really shocking! No trees in sight on the Haitian side; forest as far as the eye can see on the Dominican side. Why is that? Because Haiti is so much poorer than the Dominican Republic that trees are burned for firewood. The environment is cleanest and best in richer countries because rich people can afford to care about it. That's right, poor people who worry about where their next meal is going to come from could not care less about the environment. So if you want the 8bn people of this planet to care for it, we have to make them richer than they are.
- mucholove 5y agoPlay with me for a second...What if sustainability creates wealth? After all—once you are born into a wealthy family—the joke is on you if "you lose it".