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diff --git a/content/entry/overpopulation-overconsumption-and-technology.md b/content/entry/overpopulation-overconsumption-and-technology.md index 3a68643..299d39a 100644 --- a/content/entry/overpopulation-overconsumption-and-technology.md +++ b/content/entry/overpopulation-overconsumption-and-technology.md @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Reducing the global population via not having children won't solve the resource ### Invent New Technology Humanity may be able to become more sustainable by inventing new technology. New technology works on two variables of the aforementioned inequality. It can reduce the average resource consumption per human by giving us what we already have while consuming less resources and it can increase the rate of resource replenishment. -But technology is a double-edged sword. It often leads to more resource consumption, not less. Computers are a good example. The microprocessors of today can perform orders of magnitude more operations per second than their predecessors and take less energy to do it. Computer hard drives can store more. But now, thanks to the increased efficiency, there is increased demand. Now there are massive server farms that use huge amounts of electricity (and water). Now, programs aren't written efficiently any more because the resource constraints aren't there. +But technology is a double-edged sword. It often leads to more resource consumption, not less. Computers are a good example. The microprocessors of today can perform orders of magnitude more operations per second than their predecessors and take less energy to do it. Computer hard drives can store more. But now, thanks to the increased efficiency, there is increased demand. Now there are massive server farms that use huge amounts of electricity (and water). Now, programs aren't written efficiently anymore because the resource constraints aren't there. Rerunning the human experiment a thousand times, some technologies would probably result in increased global resource usage every single time because that's just their nature. |