Yesterday we were out with friends, I've been back in Istanbul for a few weeks and we had been talking about the places in the world where we could live in the future, taking climate change and other vectors into account. A friend brought up acceptance and we as humans are very changeable. If you remember, I've written about this before. What exactly does "radical acceptance" mean to me? It expresses the realization that any technological society that is dependent on limited resources is doomed to failure. This has been true from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age and is even more relevant in the age of industrial revolutions. The reason is simple: societies use up their basic resources - be it fertile soils, forests or minerals such as coal, lithium and copper - millions of times faster than they can be replenished. The concepts of recycling and "sustainability" may slow this consumption somewhat, though not in practice. Furthermore, the ideals of the 'circular economy' and 'renewable energy' are essentially myths that we comfort ourselves with to ward off fears. It is a harsh truth, but the decline of our techno-industrial civilization is not only inevitable, it has already begun.
Radical acceptance
Radical acceptance
Radical acceptance
Yesterday we were out with friends, I've been back in Istanbul for a few weeks and we had been talking about the places in the world where we could live in the future, taking climate change and other vectors into account. A friend brought up acceptance and we as humans are very changeable. If you remember, I've written about this before. What exactly does "radical acceptance" mean to me? It expresses the realization that any technological society that is dependent on limited resources is doomed to failure. This has been true from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age and is even more relevant in the age of industrial revolutions. The reason is simple: societies use up their basic resources - be it fertile soils, forests or minerals such as coal, lithium and copper - millions of times faster than they can be replenished. The concepts of recycling and "sustainability" may slow this consumption somewhat, though not in practice. Furthermore, the ideals of the 'circular economy' and 'renewable energy' are essentially myths that we comfort ourselves with to ward off fears. It is a harsh truth, but the decline of our techno-industrial civilization is not only inevitable, it has already begun.