• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    We need a button like this but it clearly and in common language states the levels of technology and quality of life we can expect.

    Humanity globally votes on a spectrum of these agreements until we find a suitable level.

    My pitch is; we maintain enough electronic production to keep us all online at a basic desktop computer.

    We get one new phone each decade, and one replacement phone should it break.

    Other than that, what do we really need? Electricity and farming, a mild amount of houses to be constructed.

    We should minimize R&D to things that lower power costs or energy usage/efficiency.

    But we don’t need a space program. We don’t need excessive military spending. We don’t need Formula One races, or joy rides in helicopters. We don’t really need tourism. We only need a limited amount of mining and manufacturing. We don’t need plastic toys.

    We need a global shift in culture, lifestyle and cooperation… We need to be the techno-amish-collective.

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      14 days ago

      Good tourism is how you avoid wars. No cruises, yes local, trained guides. It’s harder to hate what you know.

      Good racing got us the TGV. Formula One is a testbed for hybrid vehicles and efficiency. I don’t know enough to say NASCAR brings no benefits at all, but pretty close to useless.

      The current race for resources on the Moon is awful, but unmanned space exploration has helped us learn a lot about our own planet, including the mechanisms of climate change.

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        14 days ago

        What makes you think this is about wars …the comic ends with “no more climate change”… Not “no more wars”.

        But also you’re spouting Neo-Liberal propaganda. Italy no doubt hosted international races before being fought against in WW2, and Climate Change is obviously going to have more resource wars than before.

        But why does no one here understand my pitch is CLEARLY UTOPIAN. It proposes global solidarity on climate change. Which is obviously a UTOPIAN pitch about climate change.

        CLIMATE CHANGE.

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            14 days ago

            No, it’s my utopic idea. I say we don’t need a space program in it…

            What part of downsizing our reliance on technology leads everyone to comment and say we need a space program. Why you all so illiterate?

            Clearly if I’m talking about downsizing to a scaled back version of society I’m NOT on team rocket.

            All you confrontational assholes aren’t going to get me to choose rockets over halting climate change.

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      14 days ago

      I don’t think that vote is going to come out like you’re imagining. Most people either don’t get it at all, or are just too egoistic.