that demands self-denial and scarcity, suck.
Like to do you seriously not believe in technological solutions to resource problems?
Are you a fucking primmie?
i believe that a significant amount of productive capacity will, over the next few centuries, have to be dedicated on effectively repaying the massive overdraft we’ve aleady drawn on the natural resources of the earth. this means letting arable land lie fallow, drastically easing off on rare earth processing (and therefore computer production), along with petrochemical extraction and all forms of heavy industry. i literally wouldn’t be surprised if we see a re-intensification of agriculture in teerms of human labour, given that supplies of inputs like fertilizer and gasoline will probably decrease.
obviously, if we take a flying leap into replicators and chemical computers and ftl and fusion and space elevators then shit becomes a lot easier, but i’m not willing to place my faith in what could just end up being a pipe dream.
Fertilizer is literally endlessly renewable
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4166 and we’ve got a lot of possibilities in terms of new power sources so… no, and like we can recycle the metals from extant computers so naaahhhhh
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 