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> stupid never ending economy growth pattern. Its just impossible Agree with degrowth, exponential growth in a finite environment is not physically possible.
by myshpa 3y ago
> stupid never ending economy growth pattern. Its just impossible
Agree with degrowth, exponential growth in a finite environment is not physically possible.
> 200M happy ppl living decent lives or 10B poor ppl
We can feed 10B people just fine ... with plant based diets.
But don't worry, if we don't stop fossil fuels and animal ag pronto, we'll get to 200M or less soon enough. Not so sure about "happy" though.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/917471 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/917471
Feeding 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary limits may be achievable
- Borg3 3y agoHaha.. funny argument. Feeding is just one problem. There are few to handle more: - providing goods for people - managing their biological waste - managing their technological waste All those needs energy, from whatever source.. And we cannot scale it up forever.
- myshpa 3y ago> Feeding is just one problem But the biggest one, given the resistance it evokes and how much damage our current practices cause (esp. biodiversity loss, deforestation, soil erosion, eutrophication, excessive water, use ... all driven by animal ag). > All those needs energy Agree, and understand. We're too dependent on fossil fuels, and the EROI keeps falling down. I hope we'll manage to switch to renewables before the time runs out. Some hope is necessary :)