Re:We can do better than “same, but electric”
by slothtrop on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @09:25AM
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This is only (barely) useful alleviating short-term pressures related to emissions, otherwise it's a race to the bottom.
If not everyone can live a life of high satisfaction without throwing the world over carrying capacity, then we’re overpopulated. Ultimately the global growth rate is expected to stagnate, and we're expected to make strong gains in emissions reductions in the next few decades so it's a moot point except insofar as we need imperative solutions. In the very long run, environmental encroachment and destruction scales with population - only dampened by either innovation, or imposition of lower quality of life for commoners like us.
If not everyone can live a life of high satisfaction without throwing the world over carrying capacity, then we’re overpopulated. Ultimately the global growth rate is expected to stagnate, and we're expected to make strong gains in emissions reductions in the next few decades so it's a moot point except insofar as we need imperative solutions. In the very long run, environmental encroachment and destruction scales with population - only dampened by either innovation, or imposition of lower quality of life for commoners like us.