My local council sent me a letter saying how they are "protecting our precious environment" and have declared a "climate emergency" yet at the same time allowed 3000 new houses in one green field ( ex dairy farm) development and are planning another 4000 house development within 7 miles of the first one ....
They and the politicians care nothing about the environment.... they do care however very much about making money ..
mate, it breaks my heart it really does. year after year yet more of the country side is eaten away. there is next to zero wilderness in england. iirc your never more than two miles from a road.
its not that we dont have enough houses, its we have too many people, and thats now, that was twenty years ago. i dread to think what will be left for my little boys kids.
we dont even build in a sensible way, we should be building up rather than out.
governments love young population increases by whatever means, its good for economic growth. a world where one species can only thrive by constant, and ever increasing growth on a small planet with finite resources and space is doomed to fail. more to the point we will bring everything else down with us..
other than a nuclear war or deadly pandemic i see only two ways this can change;
the rise of AI and near fully automated labour. both nearer than many may think.
huge progress in space exploration.
if we do manage to colonise another planet. hopefully it will be some where like mars where theres nothing to uck up.
most of the planets population should then be shipped out, leaving earth as a "nature planet"
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