Matt Damon: ‘Game is rigged’

[NoOneMan]

78. There are alternatives and there is reality

Civilization's urgency for self-preservation precludes the viability of any of my preferred alternatives; frankly, I am unsure that civilization will accept any feasible approach that may contradict its objective of infinite growth and domestication of the wilds. Can this entity produce minds operating within its confines that can devise a plan to move forward (grow, cultivate, advance) without further ecosystem breakdown? Is such a thing possible?

Depopulation isn't a viable strategy that's acceptable, but rather, the inevitable consequences of business-as-usual. My ideas are rather useless while the juggernaut rolls forward, on to threatening half of the world's population with famine by mid-century. But perhaps after the bottleneck events of the 21st century when civilization is down for the count, can real alternatives be heard and implemented among people looking for a real way to survive for another hundred thousand years.

The ideas that we come up with then may or may not involve more work, more technology, more domestication, more advancement, more separation from the environment, etc.