I remind you that this is c/collapse. In this venue I think the idea that our species is using up the world’s resources at 1.7 times the rate that would be sustainable counts as optimism.
Midnight last day of December means indefinitely sustainable, without further degradation. This doesn’t mean entirely withot alteration, since even early hunter-gatherers made several megafauna species extinct.
I remind you that this is c/collapse. In this venue I think the idea that our species is using up the world’s resources at 1.7 times the rate that would be sustainable counts as optimism.
I’m saying that even x1.0 is too much. We should be leaving a lot of slack.
Midnight last day of December means indefinitely sustainable, without further degradation. This doesn’t mean entirely withot alteration, since even early hunter-gatherers made several megafauna species extinct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Pleistocene_extinctions
Net zero is optimistic. The world isn’t constant, there are catastrophes even without our doing.