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“We can choose to keep shooting up the curve of exponential growth, bringing us ever closer to irreversible tipping points in ecological collapse, and hope that technology will save us. But if for some reason it doesn’t work, then we’re in trouble. It’s like jumping off a cliff while hoping that someone at the bottom will figure out how to build some kind of device to catch you before you crash into the rocks below, without having any idea as to whether they’ll actually be able to pull it off. It might work … but if not, it’s game over. Once you jump, you can’t change your mind. If we’re going to take this approach, the evidence for it had better be rock solid. We’d better be dead certain it will work.” — Jason Hickel
We can choose to keep shooting up the curve of exponential growth, bringing us ever closer to irreversible tipping points in ecological collapse, and hope that technology will save us. But if for some reason it doesn’t work, then we’re in trouble.
It’s like jumping off a cliff while hoping that someone at the bottom will
figure out how to build some kind of device to catch you before you crash
into the rocks below, without having any idea as to whether they’ll actually be able to pull it off.
It might work … but if not, it’s game over. Once you jump, you can’t change your mind.
If we’re going to take this approach, the evidence for it had better be rock solid. We’d better be dead certain it will work.