Can we save the world?
http://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/can-we-save-world/
Well can we? And yes, I approve of having a major global conference on exactly that question.
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http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2016/12/can-we-save-the-world.html
“Can we save the world?” should be an important enough question to justify submitting it to our best thinking and a thorough review of everything we know that has bearing upon it. Perhaps it is one that we have shied away from, for fear that a negative answer would breed despair and passivity and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Yet it is hard to see that compiling everything we know in an accessible manner could be a bad thing, and realistically assessing the mechanisms that hamstring us when we want to save the world may help us find ways to get around them.
I suggest we organize a seminar series with experts that have worked on mechanisms that hamper our efforts, and people with experiences with existing efforts, to ask the question: “Can We Save the World?”
I think the climate conferences in Paris is already into the work of saving this planet
So what's the smallest global population that can support a chip foundry?
Paris and the annual COP talks are focussed on climate. The Club of Rome was more widely based. Anyone else seriously thinking like this on a global scale?
The usual debate is about short term profits vs. long term climate sustainability. If the multi-national corporations do not accept, or care, that the current situation is not sustainable for the climate then all is lost. Until priorities are established for maintaining a sustainable climate for the long term and agreed world-wide (by governments and corporate) then further conferences will not achieve a secure future for current life on earth.