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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Well sustainable is an imaginary conception anyhow. Nothing is sustainable indefinitely. Whenever the word is used, it needs to be qualified with a timeframe.
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People who can code [
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The fact is, scaling back resource consumption could have consequences that make the human race less sustainable due to slower progress of technology. It's easy to imagine us stuck with 1800s technology where 95% of us are farmers just subsisting, and being completely oblivious to a world ending meteor headed toward us.
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Tell me more about 1800s technology. Like, what are these?
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...power+stations
http://www.tart-aria.info/en/science-fiction-or-not/
Paris 1881. Russia,
probably 1896
The electric arc lamp was
invented in 1810 and commercialized in 1850. The Edison bulb in 1879.
The
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company's new steamship, the Columbia, was the first commercial application for Edison's incandescent light bulb in 1880.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas...Electric_light