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People are hoping for a quick sustainability fix but that is not on offer. Our current footprint on the global environment took at least a century of population
by college_physics 4y ago
People are hoping for a quick sustainability fix but that is not on offer. Our current footprint on the global environment took at least a century of population growth and technological expansion to manifest. Car based cities are just one of the designs we are stuck with.
EV's will play some role to keep that pattern workable, but it may well be that other ways of organising life and the economy will prove better adapted and more efficient in the midterm (~20 yrs)
Keep in mind that co2 is just one of the many constraints we are increasingly bumping against. The age of innocence is gone. On the other hand there is nothing sacred about how we organized things since 1900 or so...