The Starship or the Canoe: Where Will Our Future Adaptations Be?

Re:The Starship or the Canoe: Where Will Our Future Adaptati... by zer00eyz on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:16PM (#39773602)

>>> You can't really be arguing that people live in mud huts by choice?

You should go look at the indigenous protection efforts in the amazon. You should look at what much of Africa has done.

There are plenty of people living in their areas version of mud huts, with cell phones and solar panels. "Mud huts" are in some places very much the local, renewable building material. https://thisisafrica.me/lifestyle/wisdom-african-hut/

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Re:The Starship or the Canoe: Where Will Our Future Adaptati... by margalabargala on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:37AM (#39775144)

I think you've misunderstood! You seem to have taken the "mud huts" comment literally. The person you replied to was using it as a euphemism for extreme poverty, not a literal description of a particular construction material. Hope this lifts any further confusion.

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Re:The Starship or the Canoe: Where Will Our Future Adaptati... by johnnymorgan on Thursday March 21, 2024 @07:25AM (#39777204)

Compressed earth bricks are fantastic building material and easy to build the machines for it.

And it's all open source!

I'm with you on this, OP is being egocentric and playing a zero sum game which it clearly isn't.

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