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by anonporridge 1881 days ago
How many planets would we need to support this idyllic lifestyle you describe for 7 billion humans?

If your lifestyle is inherently non sustainable or non scalable, then you only get to live it because you're at the top of a pyramid scheme.
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hcurtiss 1881 days ago
I’m not sure I even disagree with that. Is your proposal that because everyone can’t have it nobody should?
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anonporridge 1880 days ago
No. There will always be inequality.

But we're already running over budget on the resources we do have, https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/past-earth-overshoot-d....

Unless we want to accept some kind of extreme depopulation events (either by choice or by systemic failure) then we have to learn to live a lot more efficiently than we do now. And the long term costs of running suburbs are not fully internalized to the people choosing to live like that.

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