sen-no-sen wrote:If unlimited energy were at our disposal it would change your way of life whether you like it or not, it was only observed period 1950 / 2000 to be convinced.
Your remark is subjective since you base your reasoning on the present moment, so if you lived in 2050 in the era of thermonuclear fusion you would certainly affirm the same thing ... outside an objective reasoning should not be based on a point of personal and temporary view but over a broad period of history.
What it appears is that we are dissipating much more energy than the biosphere can handle.
While there has been an exponential growth in global energy consumption since the post-war period, you will notice that in industrialized countries with a high standard of living, this consumption is stagnating.
Once you reach a certain standard of living, you do not consume more.
I maintain, if the energy I consume came from a personal generator, I would not change my level of energy consumption and my consumption would be even more virtuous: no nuclear waste no CO2.
I do not think I'm unique in having an awareness of the ecological impact ...
On the contrary, it is very important to refer to oneself, because the world is only the sum of small ones, which on the basic principle, survival, work all the same.
If you understand yourself, you understand the world.
Okay everyone is a little different, but on the surface only, basic patterns are immutable, determinisms as you say here.
Let's talk about these determinisms, they have always been at work since the man is man. Man has always lived to the detriment of his environment.
How many animal species for sure, and plant? I do not know, were eradicated from the Earth thanks to us well before the industrial era, when we were still very little on this planet.
Certainly energy increases our standard of living and our power of nuisance on our biotope.
We are here, what are we doing? We shoot each other?
A bit of intelligence and awareness of the common good are missing, that we are well agreements learn, educate, go to that.
Once a level of comfort reaches everything stabilizes, consumption, demography etc ...
Is it sustainable for the planet?
Energetically surely not, here is a spine of the foot of exit thanks to the free energy, if it works of course, what remains to prove.
Regarding other resources, not sure that the standard of living in Europe is generalizable to the planet.
If the energy becomes abundant, nothing forbids to look for such missing metal in such asteroid.
Rest the pressure on the biotope, there is no need to play in the ..
Once a certain level reaches the pressure will no longer evolve.
Sustainable or not? I do not know, I never bothered exactly.
Finally, we still developed sewage treatment plants, desalination of seawater etc ... if the energy is abundant and intelligence is at work, it can be well.
What I hear is the concern is the climate because of carbon fossils: a problem solved by free energy, more than waiting for the CO2 to be absorbed by itself (or absorbed), or we could help it technologically thanks at abundant energy
The degradation of agricultural land, scarcity of resources for fertilizers / pesticides?
Nothing prevents a virtuous agriculture. You know that it exists. only habits and financial interests are blocking.
energy is not the brake in this problematic.
In short an exit from the top, with the free energy is quite possible and desirable, rather than the return to the stone age for 7 or 9 Billion of human not even on this level of life is sustainable.
the pollution will be unmanageable without energy, the supply of clean water will be unmanageable without energy etc.
I want to say we have no choice and we must accept that we encroach on the biosphere to exist, we have always done.
The biosphere does not need us but if we have the power of transformation (the most positive and virtuous possible) thanks to the abundant energy and if we have the intelligence to preserve our cradle, preserve life, I prefer this issue to frugality and return to the Stone Age.
The standard of living of 1850, as in 1850 in Europe, is not even sustainable given the current demography.
The energy of the future will dictate our choices of life.Determinisms at work ...
The question remains, does clean and abundant energy exist? Is it possible?
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