stevestory
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| Quote (Erasmus, FCD @ Mar. 02 2013,15:42) | | Quote (stevestory @ Mar. 02 2013,13:31) | I had an old physics professor who thought civilization was a new and fairly brief phase before we went back to being subsistence farmers/hunters. I thought it was an amusing quirk.
Now, the more I read about climate change and Peak Oil, the less amusing I find it.
This might be the answer to the fermi paradox--technological civilizations wreck themselves before they get anywhere else. |
cf. Derrick Jensen |
While I agree with Jensen about many of the problems, I don't think his 'going indigenous' is a sensible answer. There are reasons indigenous people the world over got trampled by technologically-advanced shitheads.
I don't know what the answer is, in fact I think human nature might preclude any answer.
kevin drum:
| Quote | | Climate change is the public policy problem from hell. If you were inventing a problem that would be virtually impossible to solve, you'd give it all the characteristics of climate change: it's largely invisibile, it's slow moving, it's expensive to fix, it requires global coordination, and its effects will be disproportionately borne by poor countries that nobody cares about. |
though in the end, of course, the problems will hit us very hard too.
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