The second is that your conclusion about everyone losing is simply wrong. The environment isn’t being destroyed. It’s certainly being damaged, and by quite a lot - but even under the most extreme projections, the environment remains quite capable of sustaining human life and society.
Your optimism is just optimism, Casey Jones.
With each ecological disaster you can respond, "but we grew more corn…we just need to produce more energy to process sewage water to grow more corn.’
There is no way to prove you wrong until you are proven wrong.
“the environment remains quite capable of sustaining human life and society”
Nah… not if you destroy it, and mankind is certainly destroying it. Go ahead and point to Malthus’ error again if that comforts you, but it doesn’t change the reality that economic success that results from growth is also increasing the pace of environmental destruction.
As I mentioned in our thread on the other board, even under the hottest scenario under the IPCC report, human welfare increases as time goes by
Human welfare continues to be your default justification for accelerating environmental degradation.
Canaries in the coalmine, Albaby. Canaries in the coalmine.
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