[MSFT_Edging]

Vonnegut said in his last living work that the greatest addiction modern people face is the drug of cheap oil.

We got addicted to the convenience and overuse, and have started a mass extinction event because of it.

The perverse incentives will come for us all.

[moritzwarhier]

It is exactly this thought, in the form of this sentence, that could replace almost all of my comments in this thread.

It feels depressing, but I think the same. When thinking about the larger world, it becomes increasingly hard to ignore. And of course it is not new.

There were "doomers" already in the midst of the 20th century, but it doesn't mean that they were wrong.

[MSFT_Edging]

There's nothing the selfish hate more than hearing their "choices" have a net negative effect. They hate the "doomers", because it puts a damper on their little side-effect free party. Doomers are more often correct because it only requires bare minimum pattern recognition. It requires more effort to defend an action that will certainly be different this time.

AI, Crypto, car-centric urban planning, cardboard suburbs in a barren field with bright green grass.

You tell someone that their selfish choice to drive a pickup truck only to haul something maybe one time a year, they shit their pants. They can't stand it, they start personal attacks and ask "what about you??". They seem to know it's wasteful, damaging, etc but they deserve it for some reason.