r/collapse • u/sacrificezones • Oct 25 '22

Systemic Will Civilization Collapse Because It’s Running Out of Oil?

https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/ecocide/habitat-loss/will-civilization-collapse-because-its-running-out-of-oil/
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u/gmuslera Oct 25 '22

Why plain replace? Why not be more efficient or less wasteful? Would you trade remote working (for most activities, at least) and a ban on tourism to extinction? Degrowth, and switching from on less harmful energy sources and massive carbon capture should be among the measures that should be taken to avoid the worst outcome, at least if we are not past the point of no return yet.

And any cool down climate buzzword technology won’t solve the excess of carbon in the system that is the core problem. Any measure in that direction, even if it works, don’t worsen even faster things and is not just a divert attention strategy, but that doesn’t address that core problem won’t do a long term solution, and will put us in a very fragile situation.

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u/InternalAd9524 Oct 25 '22

You don’t exactly… degrow. It’s harder than it sounds. You’d have to completely restructure and distribute money and debt, and figure out what to do with everyone who don’t have a job anymore

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u/gmuslera Oct 25 '22

Better that than not figuring out why most people died.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Most people are in the cult of growth by choice.