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Plus a shift to a plant-based diet that will enable most of us to live for 90 or even 100 years, which will mean that we won't have to worry about health care a
by edw519 17y ago
Plus a shift to a plant-based diet that will enable most of us to live for 90 or even 100 years, which will mean that we won't have to worry about health care all that much anyway.
Imagine that. Instead of isolating which effect to treat, we raise the discourse to another level to examine causes. Now we have a whole different set of problems to solve.
We do the same thing in tech all the time, rendering common technologies obsolete in the blink of an eye. But with one critical difference: you have to make it easier for people.
Depending on people to make sacrifices for a paradigm shift is a recipe for failure. They'd rather just keep slugging it out in the quicksand.
- bitwize 17y agoDepending on people to make sacrifices for a paradigm shift is a recipe for failure. Amen. Just ask Jimmy Carter, who was the only president in recent history to have a sane energy policy (namely, that individually and collectively the American people must use less energy and make sacrifices to do so). Not only did we not heed his words of wisdom, but out of sheer bloodymindedness we voted the Gipper in and plunged headlong into the abyss of energy profligacy. We're now paying the price.
- tokenadult 17y agoThere are other reasons the Gipper was voted in, as I remember as a voter in that year, but I agree with you that Carter's proposed energy policy would have saved the United States a lot of grief over the next three decades, and possibly have prevented the major wars we are now involved in.