Doomers -- get therapy, get off my lawn, shut your trap and stop telling the world how depressed you are.
I have spent a couple of days trying to get through most of this article: 10 Reasons Our Civilization Will Soon Collapse. I think I stopped around number 8 and then skipped down to the last couple of paragraphs where he wants people to move to Iceland and Antarctica and yadda.
He talks about stuff like how we need SIX TIMES AS MANY METALS AS WE ARE CURRENTLY MINING. Yeah, I did a piece on panning for gold when I was homeless and:
Also, he calculates how very, very, very much metal and such we need to replace all ICE engine vehicles with electric cars. I guess he has LOTS of Tesla stock.
I got news for you: We do NOT have to replace oil-burning cars with electric cars one for fucking one.
Society as we know it is CONSTANTLY changing. The world we live in currently is very unlike the world I was born into, much less the world my father was born into.
Change is the ONE constant and acting like there is something inherently precious about the current status quo that DESPERATELY needs to be preserved is silly.
Deer eating all the grass on an ISLAND is NOT a proxy for HUMANS using up all food stuffs on planet earth. We have ONLY been keeping actual records of things like temperature for maybe two hundred years. We know with CERTAINTY less than we like to pretend.
Humans are TERRIBLE at predicting the future. Predictions from the 1960s about the 1990s or whatever all consistently completely missed a central and very important change: COMPUTERS.
China was falling behind the West in terms of infrastructure and was predicted to NEVER be able to catch up. It was NOT POSSIBLE to lay enough phone cable to ever catch us.
They didn't bother. We invented mobile phones and they skipped onto the NEXT generation of tech and now like everyone in some parts of Asia owns like THREE fucking cell phones -- one for work, one for home, one for -- I don't fucking know. Their illicit lover?
Some culture in some very cold place in human history didn't have enough fuel to keep the houses warm. It was a big problem.
And then they went "Actually, we don't NEED our houses WARM all day, every day. During the day, we tend our animals, clean, cook, work and move and are adequately warm. It's only when we sleep that the cold temps are life threatening."
So they invented heated beds and their fuel needs dropped by like 90 percent.
My research suggests that loss of wetlands is likely a very large and mostly overlooked contributor to global warming. Wetlands restoration has the potential to reverse this.
We need OTHER mitigation as well, but I have no reason to believe human caused climate change is ENTIRELY about our shiny tech.
It used to take TWENTY peasants raising food to support ONE person doing other things (king, black smith, whatever). Now, it's more like one American farmer can feed 200 people.
We need to reverse our reliance on a global economy to some degree and support more regionalism and local economies.
We need to build more mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods and public transit that makes it possible for people to live well without a personal vehicle.
We need to return to passive solar designed buildings as our default such that electricity is mostly used to add functionality to a building, like computers and appliances. But it should MOSTLY be a comfortable temperature indoors year-round WITHOUT burning fuel to get it there -- or at least NOT MUCH fuel.
We already know how to do this shit, we just don't fucking BOTHER.
Why? Too busy whining about how OTHER PEOPLE won't go along with PROVEN solutions that served humanity well for THOUSANDS of years before we became enamored of shiny tech and forgot how to get shit done?
He talks about stuff like how we need SIX TIMES AS MANY METALS AS WE ARE CURRENTLY MINING. Yeah, I did a piece on panning for gold when I was homeless and:
...humans have only found about 5 percent of the gold on the planet and that gold is in high demand as a material used in our fancy modern electronics. This demand is likely to go up, not down.The CEO of Blue Origin is leaving for his own startup that involves mining resources on the Moon. If we create a base on the moon and from there leapfrog to the asteroid belt, there is more or less "unlimited" mineral resources available of things we need for our all important TECH development.
Because the environment is a hot topic ...they are cracking down on automated processes for dredging streams for gold because it has too much negative impact on the environment.
Also, he calculates how very, very, very much metal and such we need to replace all ICE engine vehicles with electric cars. I guess he has LOTS of Tesla stock.
I got news for you: We do NOT have to replace oil-burning cars with electric cars one for fucking one.
Society as we know it is CONSTANTLY changing. The world we live in currently is very unlike the world I was born into, much less the world my father was born into.
Change is the ONE constant and acting like there is something inherently precious about the current status quo that DESPERATELY needs to be preserved is silly.
Deer eating all the grass on an ISLAND is NOT a proxy for HUMANS using up all food stuffs on planet earth. We have ONLY been keeping actual records of things like temperature for maybe two hundred years. We know with CERTAINTY less than we like to pretend.
Humans are TERRIBLE at predicting the future. Predictions from the 1960s about the 1990s or whatever all consistently completely missed a central and very important change: COMPUTERS.
China was falling behind the West in terms of infrastructure and was predicted to NEVER be able to catch up. It was NOT POSSIBLE to lay enough phone cable to ever catch us.
They didn't bother. We invented mobile phones and they skipped onto the NEXT generation of tech and now like everyone in some parts of Asia owns like THREE fucking cell phones -- one for work, one for home, one for -- I don't fucking know. Their illicit lover?
Some culture in some very cold place in human history didn't have enough fuel to keep the houses warm. It was a big problem.
And then they went "Actually, we don't NEED our houses WARM all day, every day. During the day, we tend our animals, clean, cook, work and move and are adequately warm. It's only when we sleep that the cold temps are life threatening."
So they invented heated beds and their fuel needs dropped by like 90 percent.
My research suggests that loss of wetlands is likely a very large and mostly overlooked contributor to global warming. Wetlands restoration has the potential to reverse this.
We need OTHER mitigation as well, but I have no reason to believe human caused climate change is ENTIRELY about our shiny tech.
It used to take TWENTY peasants raising food to support ONE person doing other things (king, black smith, whatever). Now, it's more like one American farmer can feed 200 people.
We need to reverse our reliance on a global economy to some degree and support more regionalism and local economies.
We need to build more mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods and public transit that makes it possible for people to live well without a personal vehicle.
We need to return to passive solar designed buildings as our default such that electricity is mostly used to add functionality to a building, like computers and appliances. But it should MOSTLY be a comfortable temperature indoors year-round WITHOUT burning fuel to get it there -- or at least NOT MUCH fuel.
We already know how to do this shit, we just don't fucking BOTHER.
Why? Too busy whining about how OTHER PEOPLE won't go along with PROVEN solutions that served humanity well for THOUSANDS of years before we became enamored of shiny tech and forgot how to get shit done?