Gerry McGovern on Nostr: “We are all tempted to look for techno-optimist “solutions” that allow us to ...
“We are all tempted to look for techno-optimist “solutions” that allow us to keep the comforts and conveniences of modernity while avoiding the harms caused by our globe-spanning systems of extraction and production. But this approach is wishful thinking at best, self-delusion at worst. A livable future would need to look profoundly different from the human world of the early 21st century.”
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-11-21/envisioning-a-livable-future/Published at
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