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Re:Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: a PLAN f... by lm28469 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @07:51AM (#32937597)
Nothing guarantees we're on a path that leads to that. We might very well be the proverbial frog being boiled alive

People think that all new tech = progress = we'll have star trek at some point.

Don't forget all these things are sci-fi, 101% sci-fi, for now all we did is put a few dozen dudes a few hundred thousand miles from earth inside tiny ass metal cans.

Some people apparently think it's easier to terraform Mars than keep our home planet clean. One being a dead rock, the other being a planet we evolved to thrive on for the last few billions years that we half way fucked up after 200 years of industrial "progress"

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Re:Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: a PLAN f... by aeternum on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:14PM (#32945316)
You don't have to believe that all new tech = progress. Just that on average new tech makes things better over the long term.

That second part has been true for pretty much all of human history.

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