Yeah, none of that addresses how we’re supposed to feed >8 billion people without modern logistics and farming backed by unsustainable practices and fossil fuel use. Especially with the weather becoming so unstable.
The fastest action that we could take that would have the largest effect is to cut out all the waste that companies get away with. Stuff like using water in California on cash crops unsuitable for the climate and on grass lawns and golf courses, or telling people in Texas to shower less and drink less water because they’re using it all in new AI data centers. Stopping practices like that will reduce strain on the system from multiple points by reducing energy and resource consumption both. Couple that with the ever increasing green energy use (solar/wind was cheaper than coal for the first time like 10 years back), better efficiency, and more effective materials and we’ll eventually make fossil fuels too expensive to use (legislation would also help big time there). There are sustainable farming practices that have been used for centuries in areas of little farmable land that have been replaced with harmful nitrogen fertilizers shipped and sold from countries like the US. Fast fashion and consumerism, loose regulations around hazardous waste disposal, the list goes on and on.
There’s massive amounts of waste in how our society works, and there’s tons we can do towards fixing the world without giving up and murdering half the world so the billionaires can keep destroying the rest of it.
Yeah, none of that addresses how we’re supposed to feed >8 billion people without modern logistics and farming backed by unsustainable practices and fossil fuel use. Especially with the weather becoming so unstable.
The fastest action that we could take that would have the largest effect is to cut out all the waste that companies get away with. Stuff like using water in California on cash crops unsuitable for the climate and on grass lawns and golf courses, or telling people in Texas to shower less and drink less water because they’re using it all in new AI data centers. Stopping practices like that will reduce strain on the system from multiple points by reducing energy and resource consumption both. Couple that with the ever increasing green energy use (solar/wind was cheaper than coal for the first time like 10 years back), better efficiency, and more effective materials and we’ll eventually make fossil fuels too expensive to use (legislation would also help big time there). There are sustainable farming practices that have been used for centuries in areas of little farmable land that have been replaced with harmful nitrogen fertilizers shipped and sold from countries like the US. Fast fashion and consumerism, loose regulations around hazardous waste disposal, the list goes on and on.
There’s massive amounts of waste in how our society works, and there’s tons we can do towards fixing the world without giving up and murdering half the world so the billionaires can keep destroying the rest of it.