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The optics are bad-- like this advanced civilization here on Earth decided to make a Dyson sphere of our own planet.
by unyttigfjelltol 4y ago
The optics are bad-- like this advanced civilization here on Earth decided to make a Dyson sphere of our own planet.
- zahma 4y agoI take your point, but arguably the optics of burning up every last drop of fossil fuel are worse.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoprobably better than mining it
- im3w1l 4y agoAlready, 96% of mammal biomass is humans and livestock. No one has the power to stop this process, to do what it would take. Enforcing a strict max-2 child policy on the whole world and/or telling people to live in the pods and eat the bugs. Hopefully, once our civilization goes interplanetary, we can try to restore a bit of what was lost.
- vidarh 4y agoFertility rate is already below replacement for all of the world except sub-Saharan Africa, and it's dropping there too. We're headed for population decline within a century unless something changes dramatically.