OK, I will put my conservation thoughts in the comments of the summary post.
The speed of posting and conversation changes on this forum is way faster than I can match, by the time I have something decent written up, conversation will have moved on.
Keep an eye out for my reply though, I’ll come around when I can. Your work on this parallels a model I have of a pathway for our civilization coping with global warming. I call it “muddling through.” I know, catchy, right? How things go this century is very sensitive to short time scales, I’m thinking 10-20 year differences make all kinds of difference, and in my view, most needed changes are in human behavior and politics, not technology developments. So, good and bad.
I think the next 10-20 years will indeed be decisive. And yes, most needed changes are in human behavior and politics, not technology development. Reminds me of an essay called “There’s no App for That” by Richard Heinberg, where he exposes that, for problems of climate, energy, inequality of biodiversity loss :
“The real problem is that […] we are asking technology to solve problems that demand human moral intervention—ones that require ethical decisions, behavior change, negotiation, and sacrifice. By mentally shifting the burden for solving our biggest problems onto technology, we are collectively making fundamental moral and tactical errors ; moral, because we are abdicating our own human agency; tactical, because purely technological solutions are inadequate to these tasks. We need to rethink what we delegate to machines, and what we take responsibility for directly as moral beings”
OK, I will put my conservation thoughts in the comments of the summary post.
The speed of posting and conversation changes on this forum is way faster than I can match, by the time I have something decent written up, conversation will have moved on.
Keep an eye out for my reply though, I’ll come around when I can. Your work on this parallels a model I have of a pathway for our civilization coping with global warming. I call it “muddling through.” I know, catchy, right? How things go this century is very sensitive to short time scales, I’m thinking 10-20 year differences make all kinds of difference, and in my view, most needed changes are in human behavior and politics, not technology developments. So, good and bad.
Ok, take your time !
I think the next 10-20 years will indeed be decisive. And yes, most needed changes are in human behavior and politics, not technology development. Reminds me of an essay called “There’s no App for That” by Richard Heinberg, where he exposes that, for problems of climate, energy, inequality of biodiversity loss :