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And do what? Cause even more human suffering by preventing others from reaching a better standard of living?

What do we ramp down? Electronics? Clothes? Food? Transport?



Yes. We managed before mass production and we will manage again.

It's either the inevitable collapse of civilization or a deliberate controlled ramp down, globally. There will not be some magic technology to fix this and we clearly are not going to be able to finesse this.

It's time to start considering and planning for a global slowdown of production and a radical shift in the way we live.

If we don't do it the biosphere is going to do it for us.


>Yes. We managed before mass production and we will manage again.

Sure we did. We managed 10,000 years ago as well. But I would bet that going back to live like people did 200 years ago would cause more harm to humanity than unabated climate change in the next 100 years.




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