alt Hacker NewsThe world is pretty brutal. Evolution depends on death, economy depends on resources extracted from the ground, which is usually an unclean process.
We have at least managed to get the worst pollution out of our cities (nothing like London's Great Smog [0] is happening in the developed world anymore), and we can protect at least some natural parks, but it will realistically take at least a hundred more years of technological development until we can run an economy that does not damage the Earth anymore.
And that will likely mean mining of stuff elsewhere, such as the asteroid belt.
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Havoc • today at 12:08 PM
> The world is pretty brutal.
Agreed. Issue is we’re at risk of making it more brutal if everyone goes all in on pollution in the name of competition.
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Agreed that the world (the Universe) is quite brutal, and often it requires brutality to just survive.
I will point out though that the companies mentioned in the article don't have humanity's survival as an objective. Only to increase their profit. And that a lot of people see them more like a risk to humanity than an ally.
And, the world is pretty brutal.