Can We Have Both Industrial Civilization and a Habitable Planet?
Yves here. Thomas Neuberger raises a question that has troubled us for some time: how much do we have to give up of our modern lifestyles to save the planet?
On the one hand, if we don’t, Little Home on the Prairie-level civilization is likely to be a good oucome circa 2250.
Posted on May 19, 2021 by Yves Smith
America’s climate envoy John Kerry has been ridiculed for saying technologies that don’t yet exist will play a huge role in stabilising the climate.
He said: “You don't have to give up quality of life to achieve some of the things we want to achieve.
BBC 17 May 2021
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57135506
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