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As much as we can blame elites for a lot of these issues - Sheer physical depletion of energy and resource per-capita is one of the big driving forces behind a
by NovaDudely 4y ago
As much as we can blame elites for a lot of these issues - Sheer physical depletion of energy and resource per-capita is one of the big driving forces behind a lot of these things nowadays.
Don't get me wrong, the elites are definitely making things a LOT worse but it is not entirely on them.
If everyone in this world lived like the middle classes, we would strip the planet bare in no time. The middle class is probably going to be remembered as just a weird moment in time thanks to the great blow off of the petroleum age.
The best thing those in power can do is try to organise for a society that doesn't require as much consumption.
- nwienert 4y agoJust reduce population, the framing that falling population is a bad thing is a fallacy and possibly the most important one to debunk in our time.
- NovaDudely 4y agoAbsolutely we need to reduce our population, how we do this in a smart and effective way.. I don't know. But by hook or by crook it is going to happen - I suspect entirely by crook. A good example would be the 'Limits to growth' study. I know they are just models but they are useful tools for thinking with. The last 6 models were all of ways to steady the population but most of them showed that the action needed had to be taken in the 1970 til 2000 to have nay hope. As Dennis Meadows said himself, he made the mistake of living long enough to see this study start to come true.
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