3 ms·
We can produce enough now, but at a cost to future production. We're increasingly cutting down forests, draining non-renewable water supplies, and reducing the
by ceras 11y ago
We can produce enough now, but at a cost to future production. We're increasingly cutting down forests, draining non-renewable water supplies, and reducing the quality of arable land.
In other words, at the current usage levels places like California will not be arable forever.
- lsc 11y agoEh, perhaps sometimes? I think we are vastly more conscious of this sort of thing than we were, say, in the '20s and the '30s, and that consciousness is going to help us screw up less. Which isn't to say we aren't screwing up some things now; I'm just saying that we're getting better at this sort of thing, in the two steps forward, one step back kind of way that humans as a whole seem to get better at things.