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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
The only way Earth isn't environmentally fucked is if we become an interplanetary species, move 70% of humans elsewhere, and designate most of Earth as a sort of National Park. Nobody is gonna clean up their act during their own industrial revolutions and no one can credibly make them š¤·
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Ran Domero
@randomerror.eth
1. going to mars is psyops. it won't make us multiplanetary. it'll make us two-planetary. anything more is a physics problem not an engineering one. all and all, there's so much more we could do with engineering alone, but the real bottleneck is physics. 2. static thinking in a dynamic world: cleaning a river 100 years ago would've costed 10x of now for 1/10th of the results. because we can't clean the earth now doesn't mean we never will be able to. (not a reason for unnecessary pollution). that being said. i hope we go to mars soon. i hope we become multiplanetary.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
"cleaning a river 100 years ago would've costed 10x of now for 1/10th of the results." Other way around, restoring a river from damming and other damage is costing upwards of x10 from what we paid to create that dam many decades ago years ago.
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Ran Domero
@randomerror.eth
that's not what i said
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shazow
@shazow.eth
I dunno, not damaging the river 100 years ago would have cost exactly x0. š¤
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shazow
@shazow.eth
My point is that the damage is not static either, it compounds and often into irreversible places (extinction of some species for, example). There's no reason to believe that it'll someday later be cheaper to undo damage than today. That's a far worse fallacy. Not what you said, but maybe what you should say.
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