Where do you stand along the continuum between anarcho-primitivism & uber-optimistic sci fi/ techno triumphalism ?

What do you see as viable solutions in terms of powering industrial society into the future?

That question assumes solutions exist. Folk of various shades of green darker than mainstream techno-fix enviros say they don’t. Consider, among the deep ecology crowd, Derrick Jensen who claims civilization itself can’t be maintained.

Or consider, among the peak oil and/or ‘peak everything’ crowd, folk such as Richard Heinberg, who say civilization might not be doomed, though industrial civilization probably is. (A solutions-oriented strain of this camp is the Transition Movement which includes Rob Hopkins.)

You can dismiss such folk as whack-jobs. Or you can include their views to have a broader spectrum of ideas about the future. In the latter case, I’d be interested in where your views fit along the continuum where anarcho-primitivism is at one extreme and uber-optimisitic sci-fi and techo-triumphalism is at the other extreme.

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