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Re:Seeding oceans with volcanic ash could be new tool to tac... by TigeriusKirk on Sunday October 31, 2021 @02:05AM (#29054823)
You're correct. Any plan that calls for less consumption is a non-starter. At this point it's incredibly harmful to hold on to an approach that's going nowhere and never will. We no longer have the luxury to indulge fantasies.
Re:Seeding oceans with volcanic ash could be new tool to tac... by holomorphically on Sunday October 31, 2021 @02:37AM (#29054937)
Consumption habits will need to change, people will need to start eating less meat. Factory farming of cattle and other animals is a large contributor of global emissions. So less consumption is definitely part of the answer.
Re:Seeding oceans with volcanic ash could be new tool to tac... by CorrectHorseBat on Sunday October 31, 2021 @04:37AM (#29055480)
On the other hand, any plan that doesn't call for less consumption is simply going to be inadequate.
Re:Seeding oceans with volcanic ash could be new tool to tac... by lwouis on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:21PM (#29090379)
Societies of the past had to deal with this. We still deal with this in wealthy societies actually. When the US west coast is hot and dry, authorities ration water usage.

I can imagine governements doing a more serious job and limiting more things for the common good (aka we don't kill ourselves by destroying our environment)

Re:Seeding oceans with volcanic ash could be new tool to tac... by jazzyjackson on Sunday October 31, 2021 @04:26AM (#29055424)
exponential growth is a fantasy until fusion power and asteroid mining become real
Re:Seeding oceans with volcanic ash could be new tool to tac... by mijamo on Sunday October 31, 2021 @07:55AM (#29056346)
I never understood this line of thought. Economic growth is not a growth of raw material consumption. There has been some correlation but you could imagine a forever growing GDP with shrinking raw material usage without any major problem as long as there is technological or organisational progress.
Re:Seeding oceans with volcanic ash could be new tool to tac... by tsimionescu on Sunday October 31, 2021 @09:13AM (#29056741)
You can imagine it, but it doesn't track with reality. Economic growth has been synonymous with fast fashion, planned obsolescence, new cars every few years, a new phone every year, more and more meat in our diets, cheap plastic crap and so on - conspicuous consumption.