MatthewToad43 on Nostr: So you want to sacrifice my family then? Modern medicine is needed, period. That ...

So you want to sacrifice my family then?

Modern medicine is needed, period.

That means we need to find some way to transition to a sustainable but not entirely anti-technology future.

Furthermore, there are so many people that it's unlikely we could feed everyone without some form of technology, even with more sustainable diets and stopping using biofuels.

I am loyal to people and ecosystems. The two are inseparable. We are part of the ecosystem. But we also need to look after the most vulnerable.

I have no time for those who say we - the west/north, but also the huge cities of the developing world - can go back to hunting and gathering. We can't, not without a rapid and extremely unpleasant reduction in the size of the population.

The transition to a sustainable future necessarily involves some costs to people and ecosystems in the short term. However in the medium term it is far preferable to the status quo, and will result in a more or less sustainable future. Assuming we go down the route of degrowth as well as *appropriate* technology.

In any case, if your objective is to shut down industrial civilisation, and exterminate most of humanity, all you have to do is wait. However short term that will make the situation even worse, due to wars, desperate attempts at techno-fixes, more biofuels when things get really bad, and so on.

I am unashamedly pro-people. To save the people we need to save the ecosystems.