If a random person looked at some posts on this blog, they'd probably think I'm an "environmentalist" since I go on and on about the Garden of Eden as a better mythos and pole star for guiding humanity than the City on the Hill model.
Over the years, I've come to think there's really no technological fixes to the problems and side effects of industrialization and that if we adopted a truly sustainable model, our lives and civilization will be basically unrecognizable from what it is today. People's relationships with each other and the economy would be completely incomprehensible to the typical work-a-day person of today. The motives and thinking of the person in that garden of eden world would be incomprehensible.
Furthermore, I think there really is no choice. Humanity ends up there one way or the other--either through conscious choice or catastrophic failure. On top of that, I don't think you get there by central planning. It's through individuals making intelligent and long range plans for themselves and their families over many generations.
The "green new deal" is just another boondoggle scam. It'll result in tremendous waste of resources rather than improved technology. Even if it's done in earnest and is not totally corrupt as it will certainly be, every industrial or technological undertaking is a game of robbing the future to live a more lavish present, even activities aimed at conservation or green energy.
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