Quote from: RE on Jun 02, 2024, 03:39 PMQuote from: K-Dog on Jun 02, 2024, 10:40 AMQuoteWe need to move away from fossil fuels while feeding eight, nine, ten, billion people at the same time.
Not possible. Hanna has no graph to show how to do this.
Hanna has a video.
AI will invent food replicators.
I don't think it's inability to understand the exponential function or energy density that is the problem. It's the inability of people to accept the inevitability of death. Is a species survival trait built in to all animals. As soon as you tell people death is inevitable, all rational thought stops and they keep trying to come up with some way to avoid it.
RE
You are quite right. I have gone down this rabbit hole.
I read The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker a few years ago. The first book I read all online. The premise is that the avoidance of death is a more powerful drive than sex. Freud went down the sex rabbit hole, but that does not explain the reality of the human condition. Death anxiety is a far more powerful force.
We also have a podcast.
Denial of death, denial of collapse. You got it.
Here is a deeper dive.