henry quirk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 5:34 pm
nuthin' else need be done
Well, we need to consume less, personally...buy less junk, and buy quality stuff in quantities related to real needs, not manufactured pseudo-needs and consumerist anxiety.
We need to push harder for political reforms in the Developing World.
We need to assist the Developing World, through sustainable, grass-roots programs like microenterprise, instead of pouring foreign aid through corrupt governments.
We need to educate women in the Developing World, because educated women tend to have 2 or less children, solving the population crisis voluntarily.
At home, we need to stop all the symbolic gestures that actually increase pollution and environmental decline. So no more driving around trucks to pick up balloons of air, as in current "plastic recycling" programs. Don't make the balloons in the first place, instead. And no more electric cars that have huge carbon footprints and heavy metals in the batteries. Aim for hydrogen, perhaps, if we can solve the fuel-delivery issue. Or create another technology, if we can't.
We need to make advances in alternative technologies that do not pollute so much. Money needs to stop going into windmills, and into better solar, hydrogen and electric.
There's a lot we can do, but it has to be more than symbolic. It needs to be deliberate, scientifically sound, long-term sustainable and not economically suicidal.
All this we can do, rather than building the Starship Enterprise and going looking for Klingons...as cool as that might be.