08-07-2021, 10:13 AM
"Saving the planet" requires a sea change in the material expectations of those who live in the "developed" world, and of those who aspire to similar living standards. Buying a different brand at the supermarket isn't going to do it. Buying an electric car is not going to do it. The aim is fundamentally at odds with an economic system which depends on selling us stuff. My personal view is that civilisation as we know it will be over before any of that comes to pass. All previous civilisations have peaked and then declined into obscurity; I don't doubt we're on the same path.