I've only read a few of your posts as I'm new to this blog. So far there has been no mention of the biological scale of our species compared to the rest of life and the finite resources on the planet. We grow ~ 200,000 daily, and have doubled in your lifetime, tripled in mine, and quadrupled in my mother's 97 years. Why do you focus on attempting to alter behavior of individuals as the best approach to reaching sustainability?
The vast majority of scientists and philosophers are determinists, with our embodied physical history including heredity (not just genes) and the present circumstance the drivers of behavior. Voluntary simplicity is a tiny tail on the Bell Curve. Techno-optimism seeks design solutions. Cultural change can help. But in overshoot, treating the symptoms can't cure the disease.
Hans,
I've only read a few of your posts as I'm new to this blog. So far there has been no mention of the biological scale of our species compared to the rest of life and the finite resources on the planet. We grow ~ 200,000 daily, and have doubled in your lifetime, tripled in mine, and quadrupled in my mother's 97 years. Why do you focus on attempting to alter behavior of individuals as the best approach to reaching sustainability?
The vast majority of scientists and philosophers are determinists, with our embodied physical history including heredity (not just genes) and the present circumstance the drivers of behavior. Voluntary simplicity is a tiny tail on the Bell Curve. Techno-optimism seeks design solutions. Cultural change can help. But in overshoot, treating the symptoms can't cure the disease.