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At some point we need to consider ramping down mass production no matter the consequences. This is getting out of hand.
by malwarebytess 5y ago
At some point we need to consider ramping down mass production no matter the consequences. This is getting out of hand.
- Aerroon 5y agoAnd do what? Cause even more human suffering by preventing others from reaching a better standard of living? What do we ramp down? Electronics? Clothes? Food? Transport?
- malwarebytess 5y agoYes. We managed before mass production and we will manage again. It's either the inevitable collapse of civilization or a deliberate controlled ramp down, globally. There will not be some magic technology to fix this and we clearly are not going to be able to finesse this. It's time to start considering and planning for a global slowdown of production and a radical shift in the way we live. If we don't do it the biosphere is going to do it for us.
- Aerroon 5y ago>Yes. We managed before mass production and we will manage again. Sure we did. We managed 10,000 years ago as well. But I would bet that going back to live like people did 200 years ago would cause more harm to humanity than unabated climate change in the next 100 years.
- m4rtink 5y agoMass production and deployment of clean technology is the only realistic way to get out if this. It's not like there are not options available, many states are not exactly poor and past experience has shown we can scale production insanely fast if there is an important reason for it.
- keewee7 5y agoYes only America and Europe should be wealthy.
- malwarebytess 5y agoMeaningless thought terminating cliche you have there. I'm talking about a global change. And if we don't do it the biosphere will do it for us.