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No, I agree with environmental protection but fundamentally disagree with your live small mindset. We can do both, we sustainable and be highly technologically
by bergenty 4y ago
No, I agree with environmental protection but fundamentally disagree with your live small mindset. We can do both, we sustainable and be highly technologically progressive at the same time.
- dotopotoro 4y agoOpposite of “live small” usually means “each year bigger and better”, which kind of means geometric growth, which almost by definition seems unsustainable.
- ekianjo 4y ago> which almost by definition seems unsustainable. We were told 1 billion people was unsustainable a century ago, look where technology brought us. Not only we manage almost 10x more without mass starvation, but at the same time everyone is much, much richer than their great-grand-parents
- palata 4y ago> we manage almost 10x more without mass starvation Really? We're going towards mass extinction right now. And I think it's pretty safe to say that the growth that allowed us to get here is what's killing us. I don't think we can say we managed, we just haven't paid for it yet.
- adament 4y agoDoes it? The opening poster specifically wrote: “we need to produce less, consume less” that is not just non-geometric growth but negative growth. So in this case the opposite of live small can simply be zero growth, or further exponential growth for a limited time and then zero growth or linear growth.