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Originally Posted by Yoko Takeo
I could easily link all of that back to globalization. Seriously, if people still lived as they did long before airplanes were even invented.....gah, whatever. I'm not gonna live to see it anyways
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Look at the poorest nations in Africa where they don't have access to clean water, to food, to medicine. That's the kind of situation you're advocating for everyone when you suggest people should still live as they did before industrialization. Life back in the 19th century wasn't easy. All you're doing is advocating an increase in human suffering. The answer isn't to cut back and drop the first world to the third world standard of living. It's to bring everyone up to the first world standard of living while expanding into space for more resources. All of our energy and material needs are there. All we have to do is take those first steps, to develop a cheap, reliable way of getting into space. Sure, there's going to be problems along the way, and it's not going to be easy, but if humanity is to survive we need to get off this rock.