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They have always threatened our existence. Humanity almost died out in the last ice age. Our development endeavors us to control and mitigate these conditions.
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
They have always threatened our existence. Humanity almost died out in the last ice age.
Our development endeavors us to control and mitigate these conditions. So even if development makes them worse than they would be, development makes them also more easy to manage.
- gchamonlive 3y agoThe fact that society can't even shift to sustainable technologies that are available today goes to show how your point is naïve at best, dishonest at worst. There are many people dying today from effects of climate crisis that would disagree with this whole affair being easier to manage, if only they could speak.
- ben_w 3y ago> There are many people dying today from effects of climate crisis that would disagree with this whole affair being easier to manage, if only they could speak. Indeed. But fewer people are in abject poverty today than at any point in the last two centuries — approximately 965 million in 1820 when the world population was a 1.08 billion, versus approximately 700 million in 2017, and higher than that in all intervening years — because while improvements have been imperfectly distributed, they have actually happened. And for many of them, the renewable options are the cheapest ways to rise out of poverty.
- gchamonlive 3y agoI wonder how this distribution of poverty looked like before Europe's expansion, enslaving Africa. How much of this improvements are actually just fixing a problem that progress itself created.
- ben_w 3y agoI assume it was just as bad in pre-industrial Africa as it was everywhere else, though it is reasonable question.