>>12073416Climate change is a microcosm of the effects of industrial society and technology; even if it was resolved over night and we no longer had to worry about carbon emissions and its effects on the global ecosystem, there will still be dozens of other environmental issues equally as if not more threatening to lthe global ecosystem. Some examples would be plastics in the ocean, the use of perfluorooctanoic acid in commercial products, which also leads to futher pollution of the environment, the destruction of large areas of land through agriculture, most promonently the burning of rainforests, but all forms of agriculture is inherently harmful to the environment, and air pollution, which has lead to a global rise in Co2 levels from 300 ppm to 400 ppm, in urban areas as high as 500 ppm, basically the air we breathe is gradually becoming shittier, not to mention the logistical issues like how people in industrialized nations have fewer children while the opposite is true in developing countries, couple that with the boomers getting old and it's clear we have a big problem. More people get born into poverty, and newer generations, even in the west, have their opportunities taken away from them as they get brought up in a society where porportionally fewer people are able to work and proportionally more people require special attention.
In short, industrial society has fucked up humanity and the coming century will display how throughly unsustainable it truly is.
