> it’s more likely that a switch to sailing ships is accompanied by a decrease in cargo and passenger traffic, and this has everything to do with scale and spee

> it’s more likely that a switch to sailing ships is accompanied by a decrease in cargo and passenger traffic, and this has everything to do with scale and speed. A lot of freight and passengers would not be travelling if it were not for the high speeds and low costs of today’s airplanes and container ships. >It would make little sense to transport iPhones parts, Amazon wares, sweatshop clothes, or citytrippers with sailing ships. A sailing ship is more than a technical means of transportation: it implies another view on consumption, production, time, space, leisure, and travel. Yes, of course they beat around the bush with weasel words like "another view on consumption". Let's translate this for what it is: "poor people, you can no longer have luxury goods". The "rethinking" is always telling us that the wealth we've enjoyed as a high energy species should go, only to be given to our "betters" - because they can always afford it. But they rarely ever say this out loud because it's an impossible sell, so they use mealy mouthed euphemisms. Fuck these people, honestly. I don't want to live in a world where, in the name of equality, we take progress from those who have it. Give it to more people.