Ronald Wright - Seeing the Future in the Ruins of the Past

[@xikano8573]

Brothers and sisters, the 6th Mass Extinction is definitely here. Mother Earth, thank you for everything you've provided me. I am privileged and honored to have been a part of your gorgeous beauty. 🙏🏽

[@dianedong1062]

It amazes me that there are millions of people chatting about the football game, or their favorite celebrity, meanwhile there are only a handful of people discussing the future survival of civilization.

[@alvaromd3203]

Absolutely great!

[@Ogmin108]

Mr. Wright, please write another book!

[@newmaterialist]

Like the idea of the Progress Trap, excellent. Not sure that indigenous Buffalo Jumps are implicated in the near extinction of the bison.

[@janklaas6885]

17:45 30:15

[@steveascension9626]

Yes, we cannot continue to grow our economies and populations.China is the modern classic example of this, having progressed from a near-primitive agrarian society 35 years ago to the world's largest producer of things and the world's largest polluter.We are perplexed by the green movement's strange silence. Ronald Wright is a very interesting man. China is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide gas in the world, with 10,668 million metric tons emitted in 2020. The U.S. The U.S. is the second-largest emitter of CO2, with 4,713 million metric tons of total carbon dioxide emissions in 2020.

[@janklaas6885]

in fact the usa is the biggest poluter

[@normag6769]

​@@janklaas6885 False, it's China

[@carlsaint2841]

Keep in mind that a big proportion of that terrible pollution in China comes from big multinational western corporations that have set up big factories (like Tesla's giga-factory) over there to manufacture our laptops, cars, iPhones and most everything else we ourselves create a demand for. So in fact, the West is exporting it's own pollution to China, like it used to with it's own trash/rubbish in shipping containers, until China decided to put an end to it.

[@spacelion6318]

Progression is there,probably there.but progress?

[@susanbolman4848]

I thought it was great until he got into it about "climate change deniers". I guess there it is not possible to even question things any more. If you do you're bad. I was surprised when he said that.

[@janetginger8571]

looking tired; interview too long....wife around?