• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I guess most of historical civilizations heard of renewables. Why didn’t they have intercontinental flights and chemical fertilizers with a population of 8 billion?

    Do you honestly think we’re going to wave a magic wand and pooff, same lifestyle but with sunshine?

    What’s coming in the next 50 years will make the 21st century so far look like a picnic in the park.

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      3 hours ago

      Whine whine whine. This person will hold their tablet against their chest and bemoan the loss of porn-on-demand while we get to work building sustainable food capacity.

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        3 hours ago

        Well yes, but that means 8 billion people will be a bit of a snug fit on this planet, don’t you think?

        And we had sustainable food capacity up to 1859.

        There’s no more bat guano either.

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          2 hours ago

          Propping up an unsustainable system through resource extraction and technological innovation without contextual relativism doesn’t just magically make it sustainable.

          It comes down to climate resilience, deglobalization of produce markets, and creating the political will to build localized, worker-owned food production and distribution systems. Yes that will mean paying out the ass for bananas, but it’s better than watching children choke on smoke while they ask you why it has to be like this.