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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Is the million years of research and current drawbacks of living in modern homes worth it when we could just live in caves?
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Increasingly, it is being found most of our inorganic building materials are sources of cancer causing agents. So yes building homes of natural materials which includes mortor, wood and other materials is much better than cancer sticks and deadly sheetrock.
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
This is clearly false. While your suggestions are good ways to conserve resources and improve safety, they are obviously not the only ways to do so. They might be the best ways to accomplish these goals at the moment, but again they aren't the only way, and necessarily the best way in the future.
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The old addage is my grandfather road a horse, I ride in a car, my son will ride an airplain but my grandchildren will ride horses.
Plain and simple we are not developing new "everlasting" forms of energy, the idea of everyone driving everywhere, regardless of the method is short lived. Even solar panels require finite energy resources to create.
It is a fact that even the most optimistic deluded ideots only believe we have about 200 years of energy and fossil fuel based fertalizer left and thats at current levels.(most seem to float around 50 years of reasonably accessable materials) We are going to have a die off if we can't pull our head out of our arse and control our population and find ways of eliminating the current lifestyle and farming methods.
Far more frightening than loosing our transport methods, is loosing food. Which will come first if things start becoming unaffordable, food or fuel?
We can choose to change on our own or live in the moment until we are forced with game over and hard stops to our lifestyle.
The belief that technology can overcome everything is false if lifestyles on a broad scale won't change.
Plain in simple computerized pickup trucks and mid sized sedans moving single persons around is of no significance to our real problem and does not change anything significantly for the better.
Sorry but this is an ignore issue unless it is forced, then it is something to oppose.