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    Overshooting Earth's Boundaries

    Started by K-Dog Sep 13, 2023, 11:59 AM

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    Sep 13, 2023, 11:59 AM


    Shrinking humanity from 8 billion people to a more sustainable 2 billion?  Robert Jensen wrote a book with Wes Jackson (The Land Institute) about societal collapse on a global scale being inevitable, and the need to shrink population and prepare.

    According to Jackson and Jensen, there's no averting collapse – electric cars aren't going to save us. The current way of things is doomed.  It's up to us to prepare as best we can to ensure as soft a landing as possible when the inevitable apocalypse arrives.

    Save as many as you can?  Hmmmmmm.  Who coulda knowd?  But is that what the authors are saying?  Or is the concentration on elite survivors.  Survivors  who absolutely will not be watching this video or have any regard for early 21st century intellectuals should somehow they encounter the advice.

    An Inconvenient Apocalypse doesn't describe how decline in population will occur, or discuss the enormous trauma elimination of the majority of humanity will certainly inflict on all those left over.

    The book is oriented toward social justice, but the authors make no effort to address the disaster required to get from A (where we be) to B (the other side).  Saving as many as you can moving from A to B seems less important than discussing a vision of an idealist utopia in the aftermath of B.

    I think that is nuts, but I don't have the book so my 'review' based on articles and this video could be unfair.  But the idealism in this conversation is as thick as honey, and things I have learned can be too sweet.   

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