lcamach84

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by lcamach84 6y ago
When the herd eat grass it stimulates grass growth and grass is a huge carbon sink. there is a cool ted talk about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI
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by lcamach84 6y ago
You have the example of the United States which has economic growth but has recently seen its average life expectancy fall. Many other countries have less GPD per capita but higher average life expectancy. What do you think of this?
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by lcamach84 6y ago
The title should say economic growth and not prosperity. You can have prosperity in a system whose objective is not infinite growth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPUogXUkr7I
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by lcamach84 6y ago
If the objective of the system is to produce stuff you need to think in large scale. When we do that we favor big corporations and as you say business around you shut down. So change this system will help to solve your problem to. How do yo
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by lcamach84 6y ago
Whenever I talk about this I am downvoted too. I follow hacker news for the rationality in the comments but on this subject it is rare to exchange good arguments.
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by lcamach84 6y ago
This proves that we need a system change. Covid made that, we change from a system with the objective of producing stuff to a system with the goal of saving lives. People of HN should take a look of the clube of rome book "limits of gr
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by lcamach84 6y ago
The aim of the economy before the covid is to produce things and this production is no longer synonymous with increased comfort. For example, Spain has many more houses than families but these families have more difficulty in paying rents.
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by lcamach84 6y ago
I advice everyone interested in ecology to learn about the Club of Rome and the Limits of Growth. This is the true inconvenient truth specially for people in businesses that treat growth as the ultimate objective.
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by lcamach84 6y ago
This reminds me moves in the fast fashion business were you can dispose your clothes and receive vouchers. The consumer feels good because he is caring for the environment and the store can keep selling more stuff.
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by lcamach84 6y ago
I agree with you, but I will mention that Netflix is a paid service but nevertheless it uses similar strategies to keep us hooked.
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by lcamach84 6y ago
It is strange to see the concepts like "regeneration" and "mining" in the same sentence
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by lcamach84 6y ago
I encourage you to look at the work of Vaclav Smil [1] . There's no such thing as clean energy. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guXaWwQpe4
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by lcamach84 6y ago
Not only programmers, many of us tend to look at progress as an end in itself. Progress is the process of measuring if we achieve the objectives, it can not be the objective. Many times we do not achieve 100% of the objectives and that is f