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239 sats \ 6 replies \ @Fabs OP 23 Jan \ parent \ on: What possible future (technological) breakthrough might be a grave mistake? science

See?

That's the thing;

We're talking about fancy things like "Space exploration" and "Colonizing new planets" - we've got some practise on the latter after all, gotta make use of that - but fail to fix our shit at home (Planet Earth).

Once we've got a new fancy planet ready for the wealthy, Earth can go to shit anyway, so why care, huh?

21 sats \ 5 replies \ @kr 23 Jan

My favorite line on this topic came from a recent discussion i had with Geoffrey West.

he said something to the effect of “it is possible to have open-ended growth, but the price we pay is that the pace of life gets faster and faster”.

the high level idea was that if we want to keep improving our standard of living, we need to continue innovating (things like space travel for example) at a faster and faster rate.

what if leaving earth to travel into space is the way to fix earth?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Fabs OP 23 Jan

Also; If we need to accelerate and accelerate in order to move forward, would'nt stagnation or shrinkage spell Doom?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 23 Jan

possibly

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Fabs OP 23 Jan

Space travel seems like a resource-intensive undertaking, how would that fix our problems on earth?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 23 Jan

the idea would be that by living on other planets or in space, we aren’t consuming the resources of earth at the same rate

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs OP 23 Jan

Don't you think that we would argue that, in stead of using those resources on an already damaged planet, we would be better-off using them on our newfound home instead?

I think we humans would find many reasons not to step up to this effort.