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> Only specific aspects of modern life are energetically wasteful, depending on what era you compare to. > Many modern conveniences reduce resources use, becau
by feanaro 4y ago
> Only specific aspects of modern life are energetically wasteful, depending on what era you compare to.
> Many modern conveniences reduce resources use, because they replace real things with ones and zeros, and for better or worse many industries are getting forgotten.
I agree, I didn't mean to relate it to all aspects of modern life, just the energetically wasteful ones.
- eternityforest 4y agoThere definitely are energetically wasteful ones. Although aside from the baseline things like refrigeration and plumbing, a lot of them aren't real conveniences, they're just traditions that evolved as displays of wealth. I wouldn't call nonnative lawns or large houses(Aside from maybe people with kids) or not being able to repeat an outfit within the same week or two convenient. Some of them might be hedonistic in some way, but a lot of things that make pollution are pretty high effort.
- feanaro 4y agoThe two large ones I'm thinking of is excessive meat consumption and excessive air travel.