Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2020 19:54:09 GMT
This seems to be a bit of a problem with humans in general. They have some sort of drive to get wealth then use it to overconsume.
I was just idly looking up these 100 metre superyachts and it turns out they burn in a year enough fuel to push most people's cars for about ten million miles.
Nobody is going to do ten million miles in a year but if you have the cash you are free to burn ten million miles worth of diesel and just carry on.
The sad thing is that ten million miles is only 100,000 times more than the average person does in their car and there are a lot more 100 thousands of people than there are people who can afford to run a 100m yacht.
So what will happen ?
Will we all need to reduce consumption or will something happen to sort it all out.
Being a closet optimist I reckon the latter but I do wonder sometimes.
I was just idly looking up these 100 metre superyachts and it turns out they burn in a year enough fuel to push most people's cars for about ten million miles.
Nobody is going to do ten million miles in a year but if you have the cash you are free to burn ten million miles worth of diesel and just carry on.
The sad thing is that ten million miles is only 100,000 times more than the average person does in their car and there are a lot more 100 thousands of people than there are people who can afford to run a 100m yacht.
So what will happen ?
Will we all need to reduce consumption or will something happen to sort it all out.
Being a closet optimist I reckon the latter but I do wonder sometimes.
