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I am not worried about logging/lumber. Lumber is a fully renewable resource so really that problem is just a matter of missing regulation in concerned geograph
by austin-cheney 3y ago
I am not worried about logging/lumber. Lumber is a fully renewable resource so really that problem is just a matter of missing regulation in concerned geographic regions. I would be far more worried about over harvesting from the oceans which are far less renewable. Prior models have suggested humans are nowhere near over consumption of land based resources.
I would be far more concerned with decadence. Economic decline that follows the consumption of social capital greater than what a given consumer contributes in return, which typically follows wealth inequality and faulty expectations among the wealth/poverty extremes.
Fortunately, humans have gone through societal collapse a few times, even since eras of written history. It almost always occurs due to many factors occurring simultaneously. It has happened enough that the patterns are identifiable and predictable. Those that survive such periods of instability after accounting for natural disaster, military conflict, and disease tend to be biologically stronger for austere conditions and better at primitive innovation than peers who struggle to survive such. Sometimes the stresses are enough to modify human DNA.
- myshpa 3y ago> I am not worried about logging/lumber This is not about wood. > Those that survive such periods of instability We've never faced the overshoot.