Some of it is useful, except the renewable energy (at least what has been presented so far) which is totally incapable of meeting the demands that some of the useful aspects of the 3rd industrial revolution provide. The one energy, nuclear, has been taken off the table. That needs to change. Nuclear energy is the salvation, in my opinion.
While I don’t think that carbon is “pollution”, and I don’t think that climate change is anthropogenicat least not that we can actually measure, I do think real pollution is a massive problem.
All true conservatives are environmentalists at heart, we just have common sense about it.
I look at it this way: for every factory we offshore to China, we end up polluting 10x as much as we would if the factory was here. In reality, all environmentalists should want to coalesce industry in the West, because we’re the only ones who take any steps to mitigate real pollution (things like nitrates or CFCs etc. not carbon).
I think that disruptive technologies like 3d printing & increased automation will help, but at the end of the day, a technological advantage isn’t enough when you’re dealing with foreign governments that heavily subsidize their industries.
Stopping offshoring will help America’s economy & the environment. No doubt about it.
http://www.nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/04/21/automation-job-loss/
This planet will be here just as long as the good Lord allows it to be.
Utopian hogwash.
The arrogant technologists will continue to comprise larger chunks of the 1%ers, the Middle Class will shrink further and the underclass will grow.
The technocratic society will be less altruistic and less egalitarian and with income and wealth spread even less harmoniously.
Human beings are going to reject being drones to the technocrats.
If we can kill enough babies, this will work fine. And that’s the plan.
“Be fruitful and multiply” is so simple, yet we won’t.
(I still have the paperback around here somewhere, I think)
The Planet does not need us to save it. The Planet is not going anywhere. It’s us that needs saving...We’ll be long gone and The Planet will carry on as though we were never even here. So there!
Apparently the first 12 Five-Year plans worked so well we are in the current situation.
I hear the USSR has a couple un-used 5 year plans. You can never have too many 5 year plans.
” we face climate change thats taken us into the sixth extinction wave in the history of the planet, and the last time that happened was 65 million years ago.” So for those of us who don’t believe the earth is anywhere near 65 million years old,I guess none of this ever happened.
If you could increase the eight to, say, 12, all these inequality arguments would be settled.