People knew in the 1980ies that without immediate changes, our civilization would face an ecological disaster. Where our parents failures because they could not turn the boat around? I suspect society has no rudders that would allow to escape the stream of industrialization.
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Replying to @Plinz
I listened to this podcast once where they talked about how clean air regulations were first created. It happened after one town had so much smog people couldn't see in the street and everyone was dying. But they did pass those regulations in the end.
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw
The point that Meadow's et al made in Frontiers to Growth was not that people cannot regulate, but that the signal that prompts them to regulate will come several decades too late. By the time our agriculture collapses, the tipping points that led there will be long past.
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Replying to @Plinz
Now that we know that, we just have to regulate harder.
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw
"now that we know that wishful thinking does not work, we need to wish harder"
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Replying to @Plinz
Totally not the same. If we're not sensitive enough to signs of environmental doom, then we have to sensitize ourselves. Surely that's something that can be programmed into people.
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