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Actually, humans doing nothing would be the best thing for the environment Industrial energy consumption feedback loops will occur in any system we attempt to
by chmsky00 5y ago
Actually, humans doing nothing would be the best thing for the environment
Industrial energy consumption feedback loops will occur in any system we attempt to build to curb the issue
Any machines, chemicals, processes, vehicles, etc, that need producing to “improve things” will all come along with chewing up resources at scale to provide the industrial pipeline
The only scientifically acceptable path is LESS industrial scale economic activity: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210312-covid-19-paused-climate-emissions-but-theyre-rising-again https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210312-covid-19-paused-...
- wongarsu 5y agoI'm not sure what "doing nothing" would look like if we don't mean "continue on our current path". The entire set of Western values as cemented by the Cold War seems incompatible with "less economic activity". And even if we somehow shake consumerism, modern agriculture is essential to feeding more than 1B humans and requires a significant amount of industrial scale economic activity. The majority of the time "buy/make this thing to reduce climate change" is a mere distraction. But there are a lot of resources that we can afford to spend, some of which are near-limitless if you consider predictable advances like asteroid mining. If we find ways to spend those resources to get us at least part way out of this mess, or to buy us time for societal change, then those are paths worth pursuing.