• Muffi@programming.dev
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    7 days ago

    For the working class, the industrial revolution was not a step forward. It took a lot of time, hard union work and political regulation to wrangle the beast that was the industrial revolution.

    • zloubida@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      And it’s the thing responsible for the climate change. It bring wonderful things, but may make the world unlivable for humans so… I won’t call it an unambiguous step.forward.

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        6 days ago

        It’s going to happen anyway. We’ll follow instinct, same as everything else. We’re programmed to consume, expand, decay, and pass the entropy along.

        Probably the only thing we can do about this is bring the population down to a very small number. You will never convince a large percentage of people to care, ever, and when it comes to the existential threat of climate change you can’t wait for them to change their minds.

        This isn’t me saying we can’t do anything about it. This is me saying we won’t because of what that cost would be.