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I mean, can we agree that life would still be worth living without the majority of the luxurious crap that has come into being just in the last century?

Was life not worth living for Homo sapiens for the ~200k years prior?

Not to mention that if our alternative is to have the majority of humanity die in a global ecological and social collapse, I don’t think anyone could think that’s a better option and more worth living for.




The doomsday talk is spread by the media but it’s not what the science tells us. The majority of humanity isn’t going to die. That’s utter nonsense.

And no, life without “luxurious crap” would suck hard. I’ll pass.


You guys really went off on the luxury thing. I don’t see where replacing fertilizer use with smarter practices results in life without luxury.




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