The Future Called: We're Disgusting and Barbaric
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The Future Called: We're Disgusting and Barbaric
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#2None of the three seem inherently discussing and "unthinkable", and the first can even be described as "beautiful" or at least "What got you where you are in the first place, morons".
I can understand "fossil fuels" as a stand-in for "harming the environment", but as something "unthinkable" alone it is BS. Plus, without leveraging fossil fuels initially for the industrial revolution etc., we'd never have "financed" this sci-fi the article future describes.
If the future indeed considers us barbaric, I'd hope it is because amidst all the greed, dreadful societal norms, wars, violence, racism, etc we live in, we had the gal to think what would eventually be held against us would be "pregnancy, meat eating and fossil fuels".
In other words, I hope the future considers this article a sign of barbarism -- or else it's not a future I care about anyway.
Re: The Future Called: We're Disgusting and Barbaric
#3The human future, if we have one, will be gritty, green, local, and full of compost, manure, orchards, insects, fermentation, and lactation.