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> To achieve growth while also reducing energy use, efficiency must be increased proportionately through technology. And that's something which happens thousan
by carlosjobim 1y ago
> To achieve growth while also reducing energy use, efficiency must be increased proportionately through technology.
And that's something which happens thousands of times per day all over the world in different businesses and in almost all human endeavour. We're constantly getting more and more utility out of the material and energy we use. So growth is both using more resources, as well as using them in better ways.
- bell-cot 1y agoFor reducing energy use, social values matter at least as much as technology. Imagine if we had no better technology - but most people drove small cars instead of large SUV's and trucks, and jet plane trips were not routine for hundreds of millions of people.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> and jet plane trips were not routine for hundreds of millions of people So lower standards of living.
- bell-cot 1y agoFeel free to live in a modest-sized, well-insulated version of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breakers with a live-in domestic staff serving your meals on solid gold plates. Or is your definition of luxury "performative wasting of energy"? If so, the lower the tech that you have access to, the better for the rest of humanity. :(
- bryan_w 1y ago> the lower the tech that you have access to, the better for the rest of humanity. Back in the early 2000's when I saw Pres. Bush on the TV, he would say something like, "... and they hate our way of life" and I assumed that had to do with our secular way of having different religions around or something. As I get older, I realize that he was talking about the above quote.
- lostlogin 1y agoDoes going on a jet plane mean you have a higher standard of living?