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UN warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’
- myrryr 5y agoFor all the world 3 model got shit, it still seems to be accurate. But yet there is a raft of people who seem to line up to say it is wrong year after year. But year after year it has been right on track. Limits to growth terrified me as a kid, and it terrifies me today.
- ramblerman 5y ago> “The big message we’ve got (is that) human activities got us into this problem and human agency can actually get us out of it again,” said Skea, the panel’s co-chair. Human *ingenuity* can get us out again. Asking countries to limit their production is just not feasible. It's very easy to describe what an ideal world "would" look like. I mean if there was no crime the world would be awesome, but we aren't going to kindly ask all human's to be better. That's what religion is for. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The UN would do better to invest in actual ingenuity, in efforts to make our species multiplanetary, better renewable energy sources, radically new city living ideas, whatever it is. Get people behind exciting ideas! Ringing the bell and saying the world is going to end is just not going to achieve any meaningful result. Humanity has overcome incredible odds, mostly by ignoring those bell ringers. Nihilism is easy.
- licebmi__at__ 5y ago> Human ingenuity can MAYBE get us out again. I would have more respect for this arguments, if they acknowledge they are leaving humankind future to a gamble. Also a bonus if there was some mention around some actors who are not “doing nothing” but actually pouring lots of money into convincing society that degrowth is not possible.
- myrryr 5y agoThey will limit their production at some point over this. The difference is "will it be voluntary and controlled" or not.