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diff --git a/content/entry/overpopulation-overconsumption-and-technology.md b/content/entry/overpopulation-overconsumption-and-technology.md index 2bc143c..3a68643 100644 --- a/content/entry/overpopulation-overconsumption-and-technology.md +++ b/content/entry/overpopulation-overconsumption-and-technology.md @@ -2,10 +2,9 @@ title: "Overpopulation, Overconsumption, and Technology" date: 2022-10-23T00:00:00 draft: false -makerefs: false --- ## Resource Depletion -Aquifers are drying up. There are severe, prolonged droughts in regions that produce our food thanks to global heating[1]. Soon there will be wars fought over water. Species are going extinct faster than ever thanks to industrialization and the endless demand for natural resources. The global ecosystem is dying. The future is not looking good for humanity. And why is this? +Aquifers are drying up. There are severe, prolonged droughts in regions that produce our food thanks to [global heating](/glossary/). Soon there will be wars fought over water. Species are going extinct faster than ever thanks to industrialization and the endless demand for natural resources. The global ecosystem is dying. The future is not looking good for humanity. And why is this? ### Balancing The Sustainability Inequality So at a very high level, we need to satisfy the following inequality to achieve global sustainability: @@ -45,7 +44,3 @@ Our economic systems need to be redesigned to enforce sustainability. Companies There's obviously a lot more to be said here that I don't have time or motivation to get to today. For example, strategies for creating political pressure for sustainability. But anyhow, I've given a very high level overview of the resource problem we're facing and the three main ways we can fix it. There is no reason to argue over which pathway to sustainability humanity should take. We're not in a position to be so picky. Given the significant probability of failure, we have to reduce our resource consumption, decrease the human population, and invent new technologies which help us use less resources all simultaneously. - - -Links: -[1: Glossary: Global heating](/glossary/) |