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Ahh... the hubris of modernity's overconsumption. Books, oil, people, food, structures, travelling without moving... We produced and consumed to the point where
by ledpup 4y ago
Ahh... the hubris of modernity's overconsumption. Books, oil, people, food, structures, travelling without moving... We produced and consumed to the point where the world was no longer enough.
'Tis a shame it cost us our civilisation.
- Freak_NL 4y agoIf one is going to over-consume anything, let it be books. Minimal environmental impact (reusable and recyclable), and intellectually stimulating. Minimal negative health effects too with a proper posture and as long as you don't read a book while crossing a street.
- ledpup 4y agoNo, overconsume everything, else you're not doing it right. 8 billion people with 30,000 books each... I'm trying to math it...
- peterbraden 4y agoAt that scale you might solve the carbon sequestration problem
- TheCoelacanth 4y ago30,000 is an incredibly large number of books for one person to have. Assuming that each book is a fairly narrow .75 inches and your shelves have 8 layers vertically, you're going to need 234 linear feet of shelves. Assuming your shelves are 3 feet apart with six inches on each side for the shelves, you need 468 square feet of floor space dedicated exclusively to book shelves. That's roughly equivalent to each person in the US using their entire living space for books. I'm pretty sure worldwide, most people would need more than their entire living space.
- baxtr 4y agoOver consuming social media sites is also a thing I hear
- RandomLensman 4y agoOverconsumption enables the civilization we have. The world not being enough is kind of the point.
- aquariusDue 4y agoIn a way I feel the more approachable something becomes, the less value will be derived from it by those who "consume" it. It's dreadful browsing a book store and wondering how many of those books are a waste of paper, worse still a waste of time. There's more to be said about the "aesthetic" of books, both from the author's and reader's sides. And today it seems that a book's content isn't the only thing that matters; Or for some authors (particularly in tech) book sales aren't the main goal, neither something more altruistic. For them a book is validating their "authority" in the field, a strategic move. I'm sure someone would make the case for subjective and objective values of a book, and they'd be right in an universal sort of way. What I yearn for is a way of knowing which books are valuable to me in a practically endless supply. Therein lies the rub because a book is a bigger time sink than a song, movie, or video.