"The future is sustainability. The future is density. The future is managed retreat away ...
For Americans, the hardest part of what is coming is going to be giving up on the grand American myth of infinite material abundance."
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/uninsurable-futures
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@ethanz just watched the Ken Burns documentary on the Dust Bowl, where speculative risk taking, displacement to government, and a refusal to retreat played out and then repeated itself in the 1950s. If even FDR was afraid to withdraw from ecological disaster when people were starving to death in apocalyptic conditions, we’re going to need something even more extraordinary for the future
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