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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by nostrademons on Monday February 18, 2019 @07:50PM (#19195840)
"(... except perhaps capitalism itself, and funny enough, people are claiming that capitalism too must be stopped to avert irrecoverable climate change)".

Also life. Evolution, birth, and metabolism also result in all available energy going into increasing the complexity of the system. The real reason we have an environmental crisis is because there are 7.5B of us, but few people recommend destroying all life on earth to save the environment.

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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by macawfish on Monday February 18, 2019 @08:51PM (#19196100)
The "real reason?"

It's not about how many. It's not about how many.

It's about how systematically detached we are from sustainable ways of life.

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Re:A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency by geofft on Monday February 18, 2019 @10:26PM (#19196375)
Sure. The claims about needing to avert climate change before it "destroys the planet" are not about the literal annihilation of the world itself, but about its inhospitability to human life.

Humanity, to some extent, competes with capitalism for resources. But while resources are not at their limit, we can grow together, and capitalism seems to bring us benefits. Humanity also competes with Bitcoin, which is a much newer system that has become seriously competitive very quickly, and it's much less obvious that it's the best or even only way to solve the problems it sets out to solve.

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