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If you turn that off then you also turn off any hope of having a modern society at all.
I like 2014. I prefer it to 1745.
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There's a couple of you that I think aren't familiar with the content of the five links provided. TL;DR: If the overall efficiency of industrial society (~4% in the 70s) can be doubled (to 8%), then twice the people can be accomodated with the same energy inputs or the same number can be elevated with reduced inputs.
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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...I could go on.
'ASAP' means expeditiously phasing obsolete tech into a recycling input, not going back to the *beep*ing stone age.