I've been reading a lot of "collapse-ology" of late that keeps referring to we humans as an "immature" species, acting like adolescents, and therefore careening toward the cliff of extinction without any real sense of the consequences of our collective way of life on one another or the planet. As I was reading that description of the types of people we need to become at the beginning of this post, I couldn't help wondering if we will find that kind of maturity in time.
Thank you and sobering to all for doing an analysis like this. If all (or almost all) your future patterns are reductive or attenuating, then the outcome will head towards zero (always). You only need to consider your analysis over 2x 300 yrs to see the end-game pattern.
The hope you refer to (though myself less a fan of “hope”) comes from finding the threads and trends that are constructive or amplifying of positive features.
I see two “hopeful” ways ahead: one is to create a large enough group that ignores much/all that is awry with current environment and seeks to exist quite independently (of course hard) OR a gradual and continuous approach of relentlessly attenuating the stuff we don’t want and amplifying the stuff we do want (I know “stuff” is a bit fuzzy). The former is fingers-crossed on the power of diversity and the latter the arithmetic impact of multiplicative changes.
I've been reading a lot of "collapse-ology" of late that keeps referring to we humans as an "immature" species, acting like adolescents, and therefore careening toward the cliff of extinction without any real sense of the consequences of our collective way of life on one another or the planet. As I was reading that description of the types of people we need to become at the beginning of this post, I couldn't help wondering if we will find that kind of maturity in time.
Thank you and sobering to all for doing an analysis like this. If all (or almost all) your future patterns are reductive or attenuating, then the outcome will head towards zero (always). You only need to consider your analysis over 2x 300 yrs to see the end-game pattern.
The hope you refer to (though myself less a fan of “hope”) comes from finding the threads and trends that are constructive or amplifying of positive features.
I see two “hopeful” ways ahead: one is to create a large enough group that ignores much/all that is awry with current environment and seeks to exist quite independently (of course hard) OR a gradual and continuous approach of relentlessly attenuating the stuff we don’t want and amplifying the stuff we do want (I know “stuff” is a bit fuzzy). The former is fingers-crossed on the power of diversity and the latter the arithmetic impact of multiplicative changes.
I will be defending it until my last breath. 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼