[–] Maxcactus 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Some good ideas here. The big driver of this process is that we have exceeded the human carrying capacity of Earth. We could probably easily handle 8 billion humans living at rural Indian/ African levels but not 8 billion humans living at the North American or European level. If there was an analysis of the real resource/ environmental cost of maintaining a high consumptive human and compare that to the capacity of earths recharge and recovery cycles we would know what the carrying capacity is and shoot for maintaining that population level.
[–] Crossing 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
TL;DR - His solution is reduce gov't spending + disable gov't money printing = less incentive for overconsumption = less CO2.
[–] TheBrokenWorld ago
Uniquely useless.
[–] Tb0n3 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Or focus on renewables. That's harder to further but better overall.
[–] Sosacms ago
Renewable all the way. If every home way as self sufficient and off the grid as possible, not even a zombie apocalypse would slow us down.
After the initial costs, the annual costs would get lower and lower as efficiently increases. Retirement, unemployment, and welfare costs would be lower. Helps current resources last longer. Removes waste of over production, and ultimately could make a system that provides all needs cheaper and more effective than our current system.
That's my pipe dream. Just utilizing all that energy that already exists more effectively so we don't have to create our own energy.
Imagine how cheap we could solve homelessness/poverty when their utility bills are practically 0. Not to mention the boost in the economy when everyone has more discretionary income.