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> maximize comsumption, ignore pollution, expand at all costs Exactly this. I don't think a supercivilization would emerge as one with this maxim. It would die
by nickbauman 12y ago
> maximize comsumption, ignore pollution, expand at all costs
Exactly this. I don't think a supercivilization would emerge as one with this maxim. It would die in its own cradle. Likewise, I believe our problems of this nature must be solved here, at home, before moving out and spreading our tragic narrative elsewhere.
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- nik61 12y agoThis comment is being downvoted for no good reason? It is a pessimistic but valid slant on this discussion I'd say.
- nickbauman 12y agoHey, thanks. I think I may have knocked an inviolable shibboleth within the HN community, so it's natural that it would be down-voted.