• tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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      10 months ago

      What if i told you with renewable energy, public transit mobility, an end to the 9to5 and consume excess hamster wheel, proper recycling and sustainable products everyone could life a good life, many americans even a better life?

      The world has enough ressources to sustain a larger human population and give everyone the means to a decent life. It is solely in the way things are done right now, in particular the obscenely rich, that are unsustainable.

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        10 months ago
        • sustain a larger human population

        No, we are way over budget on people as it is. Sustain means ‘indefinitely under current conditions’.

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          10 months ago

          Can you point me to a dictionary that specifies, that it can only refer to the current conditions?

          https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sustain

          It suggest as meanings to maintain, to provide, to encourage… In the meaning of provide and maintain there is no limit to current conditions.

          I have laid out the conditions under which the world can sustain such a human population. I find it linguistically wrong to limit it in such a way, that only the current situation is permissable. This is directly contradictorary to any use in relation to future like planning.

          E.g. “we plan the building to sustain a 6.5 earthquake” would be wrong under your criteria, as neither the building, nor the earthquake exist at the point of that statement…