Re:It's 2050 and This Is How We Stopped Climate Change
by alexandercrohde on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:33PM
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So what point are you ultimately spending your energy trying to convince us of... that the human race will necessarily kill itself?
Re:It's 2050 and This Is How We Stopped Climate Change
by lm28469 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @04:23AM
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Not really, but maybe instead of running blindly ahead and applying more of the cause of our issues we should stop and make conscious decisions. Right now it seems that we forgot technology should serve us, not the other way around.
Writing best case (science fiction) scenarios isn't going to do anything good, it might even make people feel good about themselves and "wait" for the problem to be fixed. Pollution is a social/economical/political issue, not a technological one. Innovating in the later while stagnating in the former won't do much.
Yeah right, what about the 3+ billion people living in asia/africa below what's known as poverty in US/EU ? Do they also live in high tech houses on top of hills, powered by solar panels and batteries, drinking latte macchiatos from an $3k coffee machine and having an electric car / access to helicopters ? Or is this reserved to the elite and they're still manufacturing 90% of our gadgets in heavily polluted and overcrowded cities ?
> Now, because the animals are growing so much faster
Oh but we already do that, it doesn't look good though: http://www.veterinaryworld.org/Vol.2/November/Sudden%20Death...
SV is so insanely disconnected from reality, it now sounds more like religious prophecies than reasonable predictions; repeat after me "tech will solve all our issues". The only reason we'd stop polluting is if it gets financially more profitable not to pollute, nothing more than a beneficial side effect.
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