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France seems to be doing a little bit better than the rest of Europe. Is that because of their nuclear plants?
Edit: I forgot to mention we have French Guiana which is essentially untouched forest and which offsets most comparison maps (biodiversity is a famous example).
France seems to be doing a little bit better than the rest of Europe. Is that because of their nuclear plants?
Just wondering, how can a small country like for example the Netherlands, with no vast tree wildlife for example, get to a neutral or even positive foot print? A trading nation by roots, is it even possible to get to 0 deficit?
So what are the real options of survival? a) accelerate migration to Mars b) population control? Anything else we can do to prevent "fucked"?
Use natural resources more efficiently by way of better technology and/or import natural resources from the rest of the solar system.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Take a look at Germany, they are steadily increasing their biocapacity while reducing their ecological footprint (I wonder how they increase the biocapacity so steadily over such long period of time). So, you may not achieve a balance, but maybe at the scale of a region like Europe, we can achieve it.
They have not reduced their ecological footprint. They are relying increasingly on coal, especially as new bioenergy installations are slowing down and demand is only growing. They have never burnt as much coal as nowadays. It accounted to 45% of their power in 2014 (couldn't find a more recent figure). They are still building new coal plants and they need so much coal these days that they raze whole villages to dig…
So what are the real options of survival? a) accelerate migration to Mars b) population control? Anything else we can do to prevent "fucked"?
A friend of mine is a big advocate of space habitats. Apparently they are far superior to Mars as a place where we could expand in foreseeable future. Maybe someone knowledgeable could chime in?
If not many, then how are we going to choose who to shove there?
What if it will turn out discriminatory?
I'm pretty sick of all that hype around Tesla for example, pretending to be the real solution for independence of oil and gas. That is simply not the case. Tesla hasn't solved any of those issues so far, they only shifted the problem once again. Of course they design very beautiful electronic cars, but this isn't a solution for our energy and resource problem either.
So what are the real options of survival? a) accelerate migration to Mars b) population control? Anything else we can do to prevent "fucked"?
So what are the real options of survival? a) accelerate migration to Mars b) population control? Anything else we can do to prevent "fucked"?
So what are the real options of survival? a) accelerate migration to Mars b) population control? Anything else we can do to prevent "fucked"?
A friend of mine is a big advocate of space habitats. Apparently they are far superior to Mars as a place where we could expand in foreseeable future. Maybe someone knowledgeable could chime in?