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> Or we can keep living, keep enjoying our advancements, and find a way to make it work in a way that keeps the climate stable. Press X to doubt. The level of
by empyrrhicist 3y ago
> Or we can keep living, keep enjoying our advancements, and find a way to make it work in a way that keeps the climate stable.
Press X to doubt. The level of technological hubris in this statement is astonishing - we don't know that we'll be able to do this, and we can estimate that the cost of mitigation will be higher than prevention.
Very few are advocating living like acetic monks, but we absolutely need to work on including externalities into our pricing system.
- mrguyorama 3y agoIt's exhausting how people think tech is magic, that you can just "innovate" away any inconvenient reality.
- empyrrhicist 3y agoI think part of it is the truly staggering disconnect most people have from the natural world. Start learning about it in earnest and you will see the slow rolling apocalypse everywhere.