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> how to build a culture willing to maintain life support systems for generations Do we not already have a culture willing to maintain culinary water systems,
by herewulf 3y ago
> how to build a culture willing to maintain life support systems for generations
Do we not already have a culture willing to maintain culinary water systems, sewage, the electrical grid, etc? Sure it's not as bad if one of those goes offline sad with life support but we pretty well can and do take for granted that those things are always there. And pretty rarely are any of these offline everywhere in a given area. There's plenty of redundancy.
Speaking of which, no doubt some thought will be needed for non Earthly natural disasters.
- w0de0 3y agoWater systems and sewage are luxuries, not an ecology. The Earth and its ecology is a life support system - it’s the only one that’s ever existed for longer than a human generation or two. Though human maintenance is not required - we are inherent to the system - we’ve nonetheless rapidly figured out a way to break it so grievously our own part in it is endangered.