@breadandcircuses
Came across a Mastodon post linking to a blog supporting continued growth.
It's hard to understand how apparently intelligent people can think, "We've continued to grow and increase greenhouse gases for the last 50 years knowing that it will result in climate change and now we should do some more growth because that will stop climate change."
But that seems to be the line taken.
@skua
It's simply because those who decide, and damage our climate the most will be the lasts to or even won't pay the bill.
They don't really mind.
@breadandcircuses
@Badmax
That's the narrative which they and you believe. But it's not factual. It's the human mind that can't / won't voluntarily imagine global disruptive disasters or regional disasters that echo through the fragile fabric of tech civilisation and rip it apart.
Hundreds of millions of highly complex-specialised personell are needed to run our tech civilisation from mining raw materials for manufacturing and transporting lab tubes to lubricants to lorry tires and also fossil fuels. If they die you can't replace them with others bc you can't get others trained, anymore.
So what happens when shit hits the fan is that today's decision-makers in economy, politics, media are just as focked as everybody else. A bunker with shelves of food won't save the rich. If they survive the first death waves at all, they'll become foraging nomads just like all other survivors in cultures where the majority has long forgotten how to make do with less.
