Is Industrial Civilization Sustainable?
Most people think that industrial civilization is sustainable because, well, humans are apparently the most important and most special organism on this planet. We are apparently the pinnacle of God's creations or evolution (depending on your religious perspective). There is no way we can mess up the Earth's climatic systems . There is no way humans can irreversibly destroy the planet's biosphere. Most importantly, it is widely believed that human are infinitely clever and adaptable. No matter how much we destroy the planet's biosphere via industrial activities , no matter how much plastic pollu tion we dump into the world's oceans, no matter how many billions of tons of greenhouse gas pollution humans spew into the atmosphere each and every year , etc mankind will always come up with an ingenious technofix to industrial civilization's problems. Yes, most people believe that mankind will always invent new technologies to fix the problems ca