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hunter

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11. The world wasn't "meant to" do anything.
Sun Nov 5, 2023, 01:54 PM
Nov 2023

Like it or not, there are eight billion people living here on earth.

That's the reality we have to deal with.

Dystopian thinking, imaging a world where billions of us are suffering and dying, is hardly any more useful than imagining techno-utopias powered by magical fusion power plants and batteries.

I believe we can solve our problems with tools that already exist. We know how to limit human population growth. We know how to treat sewage. We know how to generate electricity without fossil fuels. We learned all this stuff in the twentieth century. Now we just have to do it.

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