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Please do not downvote this. At least present your side of view and educate us. Many of us feel that productivity/ money are not the goals of life. That humans
by connectsnk 3y ago
Please do not downvote this. At least present your side of view and educate us. Many of us feel that productivity/ money are not the goals of life. That humans are putting too much pressure on the planet by consuming resources and in the end it’s going to be detrimental for our own existence.
Please let us know why we are wrong.
- qwytw 3y agoBecause having disproportionally more old than young people in a society is extremely unlikely to result in a higher QoL. The opposite is much more likely..
- connectsnk 3y agoIn the short term yes but in the very long term, the old people will die out.
- nashashmi 3y agoPeople need to prioritize people over materials. Yet right now they are prioritizing heavy materialistic living over a bigger population. It is why the world "can't take the pressure of a huge population" argument surfaces.
- nashashmi 3y agohttps://youtube.com/shorts/mnYRqE1lC0E?feature=share https://youtube.com/shorts/mnYRqE1lC0E?feature=share
- BjoernKW 3y agoThese are a few of my previous comments on the matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35357326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35357326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35362526 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35362526
- connectsnk 3y agoCan you explain your claims please? >Even the current number of humans alive - let alone people yet to be born - can't be maintained without continued growth, innovation, and the paradigm shifts resulting from that innovation and growth.
- BjoernKW 3y agoMore people require more food and more energy, both of which need to be produced, This can only happen through economic growth and efficiency gains.
- midoridensha 3y agoMore people could live with much less energy if they didn't all drive around in 3-ton fossil-fuel-burning metal boxes and live in huge, separate houses with HVAC.
- BjoernKW 3y agoThank you for most entitled comment in this thread so far. People in developing or newly industrialized countries typically don't drive SUVs or live in individual houses with HVAC. This idea that we could solve the climate change problem entirely by restricting the amount of energy people are allowed to consume in the Western world is a misguided and quaintly privileged point of view. For most of the rest of the world limiting growth would come down to population control and demanding people remain in abject poverty.