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   🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 08:33:34 JST 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

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   The smartest people in the richest states on Earth know that our current trajectory is towards a hard crash of civilization due to climate change. We should be able to effect the necessary changes to minimize the catastrophe and to push for demographic transition in ways that don't threaten to make the climate problem worse.
   That's been true for 30 years.
   We are not doing it because of various delusions including the one that we can just push through by juicing AI, biotech, and space.

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     🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 08:33:35 JST 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

     Alvin Toffler and Paul Ehrlich were guilty of being mostly right ~40 years early.
     We're starting to understand that the threat of "over-"population isn't fundamentally Malthusian (food) but rather the fragility of the large complex systems that have so far sustained growing populations to the point of 'demographic transition' and the diverse resource demands of transitioned societies.
     Meanwhile, "developed" nations have OD'd on mis/dis/infotainment to the point of rejecting objective reality.

     Minoru Saba repeated this.