The most powerful story in the world is the one that says that economic growth is the solution to the world’s social and political problems. However, using today’s technology, that solution creates a greater problem, the destruction of the world’s ecosystem. That’s a point convincingly made by Yuval Harari in his book Sapiens; A Brief History of Humankind.
The only time that the rapid rise in greenhouse gases slowed, he says, was during the 2008 recession which caused a slowdown in economic growth. Now that economic growth is greatly increasing greenhouse gases continue to increase. Not only do the wealthy economic elite want the growth to continue, but so do the masses of the world. When the billions of Chinese and Indians, for instance, reach lifestyle parity with Americans and Europeans, the ecosystem will collapse.
Some believe that evolving technology caused this, but that new technology can also solve the problem. However, others think for that to happen political and economic leaders will have to cause it to happen.
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