If you had the choice of being born either into an impoverished life in a sustainable agricultural civilization, or into a comfortable life with internet, global transportation and healthcare close to the end of an unsustainable technological civilization, which would you choose?
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Replying to @Plinz
Depends on who you are, what you know, who your community is & what they know, what you & they aspire to be, what they want their community to achieve in 100 years, 1000 years, 10000 years... There are no absolutes here.
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Replying to @richarddorset
Imagine you had the choice of leaving this life and continuing it in a world where the industrial revolution did not happen and the global human population was below 400M, would you take it?
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Replying to @Plinz
Probably not, because I am a product of 20th century living. Ethics isn't really detached from who we are & what we want, is it. An aboriginal rainforest dweller (if they understood the question) might choose differently.
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Yes, hard to say. It seems that ancestral societies offered more fulfillment to most adult individuals, but it is difficult to imagine that parents would decide to live in a world where most of their children die.
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