Keith D Johnson on Nostr: "Daniel Brooks: Well, the primary thing that we have to understand or internalize is ...
"Daniel Brooks: Well, the primary thing that we have to understand or internalize is that what we’re dealing with is what is called a no-technological-solution problem. In other words, technology is not going to save us, real or imaginary. We have to change our behavior. If we change our behavior, we have sufficient technology to save ourselves. If we don’t change our behavior, we are unlikely to come up with a magical technological fix to compensate for our bad behavior. We should not be talking about sustainability, but about survival, in terms of humanity’s future. Sustainability has come to mean, what kind of technological fixes can we come up with that will allow us to continue to do business as usual without paying a penalty for it? As evolutionary biologists, we understand that all actions carry biological consequences. Relying on indefinite growth or uncontrolled growth is unsustainable in the long term, but that’s the behavior we’re seeing now."
#overshoot #press
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-collapse-is-coming-will-humanity-adapt/?
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