The_Animus
Illuminator
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Whether you believe that humans are causing global warming or not, whether you believe global warming is happening or not, I say it's utterly irrelevant. Either way I have outlined a simple drawing which I will use to help explain why we need to change the way our economy and society work.
Many of our resources are finite. History shows that the human population has been continually increasing. History also shows that yearly resource use per person has been steadily increasing. Ultimately this means that we will consume limited resources at an ever increasing rate until they are depleted.
If resource use causes pollution, and it most certainly does, then as resource use increases so does pollution.
Therefor if these trends continue, then at some future point, whether it's 50, 100, or 150 years from now, we will use up, pollute, or otherwise destroy things which are necessary for our survival.
A sustainable economy and society is the only long term solution. Global Warming may or may not cause us some serious problem in the next 50 years, but at some point if we don't change we're going to have serious problems anyway and there is no time like the present to start changing.
There are those who state we cannot do this because it would hurt the economy, people would lose their jobs, it would be too costly, etc. Yeah, that's called switching costs, and they are indeed a high toll to pay. However putting it off until there are even more people, using even more of our ever diminishing resources will be all the harder and more costly.
Questions?
Too bad
Many of our resources are finite. History shows that the human population has been continually increasing. History also shows that yearly resource use per person has been steadily increasing. Ultimately this means that we will consume limited resources at an ever increasing rate until they are depleted.
If resource use causes pollution, and it most certainly does, then as resource use increases so does pollution.
Therefor if these trends continue, then at some future point, whether it's 50, 100, or 150 years from now, we will use up, pollute, or otherwise destroy things which are necessary for our survival.
A sustainable economy and society is the only long term solution. Global Warming may or may not cause us some serious problem in the next 50 years, but at some point if we don't change we're going to have serious problems anyway and there is no time like the present to start changing.
There are those who state we cannot do this because it would hurt the economy, people would lose their jobs, it would be too costly, etc. Yeah, that's called switching costs, and they are indeed a high toll to pay. However putting it off until there are even more people, using even more of our ever diminishing resources will be all the harder and more costly.
Questions?
Too bad
