We are heading into a wall
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Agreed, really, advances in tech are certainly going to solve many probs related diseases, food shortages, our ability to live longer lives etc.
So maybe hitting the wall may never come, or it will be a few steps from us but thanks to the above we can avoid smacking into it.
However, "By no means does that mean throw caution to the wind and abandon responsibility..." Well, we kinda have been doing that for the last hundred years don'cha think? Fact is, we give more and more 'power' to worldwide, faceless organizations that just love throwing caution to the wind b/c $$. "We'll just apologize later."
'Hey, it's just a river, get your drinking water from somewhere else. A little crude oil won't hurt anyone. Fish somewhere else. Hey guys how about we build these sweet reactors next to the ocean in the middle of an earthquake zone?'
I feel like these are the things that will return to bite us in the ass. Sh*t is adding up, albeit slowly for the most part. Is pointing that type of thing out fear mongering? Some days yes. I think it's more of an old-fashioned way of looking at things w/o getting caught up in predictions and projections.
We are fools to think we will never have to eventually 'pay the piper.'
Also, as a side note, probs mother nature is going to have the last laugh regardless of our efforts to stay safe 'n cozy on the planet. Maybe it's a new viral outbreak we can't fight or a volcano that creates a wintery globe for a few decades, effectively killing most of us. Whatever it may be, we are not as in control as we would like to think. Just an opinion.
- As a society, we are FAR more responsible than 200 years ago with the industrial revolution.ETM
- Believe it or not, less ignorant or oblivious, though it may not feel that way.ETM
- indeed, but now we can destroy an ecosystem by forgetting to have our coffee and not pishing that buttonprophetone
- so better yes but easier to muck things up in a hurry and in a big wayprophetone
- or... in the case of fukushima, mother nature took care of that for usprophetone