People who have a blind faith that technology, or capitalism, are going to save us from the ecological crisis, have a super rude awakening coming.
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I’d reframe this slightly, & suggest the only thing that matters is how humanity responds to the crisis, which would necessarily include the specific technologies we decide to develop & deploy. It will include a lot of other necessary cultural, psychological, & economic shifts.
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You may have already seen this in your timeline, Vince, but I am keen on signal boosting this... ...as a concert proposal and as a meta-frame for our relationship with fossil fuels for the next 12-25 yearshttps://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-02-11/the-sowers-strategy-norway-leads-the-way-toward-the-energy-transition/ …
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My challenge with making it primarily about technology, is that this over-reliance on tech blinds us to what’s happening on other levels. Ex: More technology won’t transform the underlying economic incentives that keep us dumping our waste in order to pull up more profits.
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quite into the idea of a social technology being the thing that brings us into the next phase. Something that can make communcation easier and agreement possible
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