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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You can easily be an environmentalist and still believe in the Star Trek paradigm. While we, that is mankind, might have the ingenuity to find technological solutions to most of our problems, we do not have the political or economic systems necessary to actually put these solutions into reality.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Or just that we should start small with the immediate existential threat on the planet that people already are on

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

also, the ability to do stuff is the ability to make problems. if our societies do not advance at pace with our technology, we will die. see: outside

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, we're really in need of a Romulan invasion.