This is one of those articles that reminds you that we are quite possibly the most comfortable generation there ever has been and ever will be in human history (at least for most people reading the article). We get cheap food, cheap travel, cheap and effective medicines, someone on an average salary can still afford a car, cheap, powerful and widely available electronics… a lot off this stuff has only really been exploited for less than 100 years, and we’re already running out. While we can see the beginnings of scarcity in some cases, for most of us this hasn’t really started to bite yet. There will be new technologies that help us to live with future realities, but the life we’re living now is probably going to seem pretty easy to people in a generation or two’s time. It’s not a very novel observation, but it’s kind of scary to consider what we’re leaving to future generations through what is in many cases pretty unnecessary and wasteful consumption.
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