Is Doomism Bad? Is Techno-hopeism Any Better?
What to do if neither works?
No matter what the lunatic cultists and sycophantic believers of The Perpetual Growth Religion tell you, it is becoming evident each day that the planet will run out of critical materials in just the next few decades in their frantic effort to build as many renewable energy devices and EVs as they can, in as short a time as possible just to save themselves from themselves.
It is hardly surprising that the ones who are the most vociferous advocates of the coming techno-marvels about to save us are the same ones who benefit most from those ingenious solutions, not the kids dying in the Sahel for lack of calories; kids whose lives the West has destroyed by stealing everything in their continent and now getting ready to steal their sunshine so they can churn out more Mercedeses and fly from London to Sydney in a single bound.
Most of us in the relatively well-off “West”, have forgotten that without excess energy, energy that is above and beyond sustaining our bodies, we can not live, produce work, reproduce to perpetuate our species or even get up off our beds, if we are lucky enough to have them.
Economies starve just the same as individuals. We have yet to learn that lesson.
