Quote (nineinchnailz @ Jan 24 2012 01:53pm)
He obviously ignores the more severe possibilities and his response resembles trolling more than honest debate. The answer to my question is simple... jobs : everything
If you are going to take the lack of protection to such an extreme that we lose everything, why not take the protection to an equal extreme?
We have to get rid of all cars, manufacturing, electricity, electronics, metals, plastics, etc. We basically have to revert to the stone age, because just about everything we use today hurts the environment in one way or another. All synthetics come from oil, drilling for which is an obvious issue. Smelting all metals is quite polluting too, so that's gone. The only really "clean" way of making energy is solar, since just about everything else has some impact on the environment. There's no way we can power even a fraction of our global needs with solar alone, so that's gone, not that it matters, since without plastics and metals electricity is pretty useless. Without synthetic clothing we'd need a lot more livestock for wool and leather, but that's a pretty serious greenhouse issue, so bye bye sheep and cows.
You are basically left with using rocks and running around naked. No fires, by the way, since cutting trees and burning them has a pretty obvious impact.