New Neighborhood Will Grow Its Own Food, Power Itself, and Handle Its Own Waste

Re:New Neighborhood Will Grow Its Own Food, Power Itself, an... by Broken_Hippo on Sunday May 29, 2016 @10:24AM (#11796457)

I disagree - we never have really thought that we could live indefinitely and sustain ourselves. Overpopulation has been a fear since Plato at least (https://fee.org/articles/overpopulation-the-perennial-myth/). We hunted things to extinction and knew it. Plus there were more diseases to worry about, death rates for child-bearing women were high as well as the child death rate. Really, if you weren't worried one way, you were worried another.

Different times simply frame problems differently. At least we are more aware of some of the stuff now, even if we haven't scientifically figured it all out nor figured out how to work together enough to solve them.

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Re:New Neighborhood Will Grow Its Own Food, Power Itself, an... by wallace_f on Monday June 06, 2016 @11:15AM (#11847366)

Exactly.

Fear of technology, and even industrialization, have also been around, probably as long as technology and industrialization have.

Every generation has had these same sentiments and concerns, just framed in a different era.

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