• Manucode@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    You can easily be an environmentalist and still believe in the Star Trek paradigm. While we, that is mankind, might have the ingenuity to find technological solutions to most of our problems, we do not have the political or economic systems necessary to actually put these solutions into reality.

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      7 months ago

      Or just that we should start small with the immediate existential threat on the planet that people already are on

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      7 months ago

      also, the ability to do stuff is the ability to make problems. if our societies do not advance at pace with our technology, we will die. see: outside