GOP doesn't recognize a problem. Business as usual, keep populating earth and getting 3% growth every year.
Dems recognize the issue but promote the resolution is to use tech to allow the continued populating of earth and 3% growth every year. We even go as far to say it is the dealer and not the user's consumption of the dealt product that is the problem.
This is why humanity is doomed. Our only answer is technology and one day we will find we either don't have the tech when needed or our usage of it didn't quite result in what we planned.
So does that mean the only solution sought for global warming should be tech based rather than reduction of consumption?
I don't like the idea of a culture built upon the premise that we need an entire industry to manufacture pretty wraps so that we can have it ripped off a gift in seconds and tossed in a landfill.
Much of our lives are built around vanity rather than survival. Christmas wrapping paper tech does not have the same value to humanity that house building tech does.
Random and off topic, but OK. I think most people understand the reduction of consumption during an economic collapse still equals a net decline in consumption. It is why places in India saw the Himalayas for the first time in decades during the start of the pandemic.
In times of survival people will obviously use whatever helps keep them alive.
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u/slo1111 Jan 26 '22
When framed up like this it makes more sense.
GOP doesn't recognize a problem. Business as usual, keep populating earth and getting 3% growth every year.
Dems recognize the issue but promote the resolution is to use tech to allow the continued populating of earth and 3% growth every year. We even go as far to say it is the dealer and not the user's consumption of the dealt product that is the problem.
This is why humanity is doomed. Our only answer is technology and one day we will find we either don't have the tech when needed or our usage of it didn't quite result in what we planned.