ennui:
"The flipside is would you like to see cities that get flattened never rebuilt?"What I like has absolutely nothing to do with the destructive path humanity is on.
"The melodramatic image of sociopaths drooling over storms is a figment of your own imagination."Again, you're wrong. Talked to my buddy last night. The insurance people called yesterday and put him on standby. He's packing his truck; excited about the prospect of adjusting and processing claims. Seems business has been a bit slow this year, and I'm betting that there are 1000 others just like him.
"Basically what you are doing is being a grump, putting a negative spin on anything and everything, and never really envisioning a better alternate scenario."I, for one, don't spray perfume on a turd and call it a rose. It's not my fault if you can't come to terms with the fact that humans have largely succeeded at trashing their environment, and continue to do so on a massive scale, all-the-while rationalising and justifying their behaviour as if that will change anything. I'm as guilty as most folks, but at least I admit it, call a turd a turd, and am attempting to change my own behaviour in less greedy and destructive ways. You busy yourself making excuses. Our grandkids won't give a shit about our excuses.
As for cities getting flattened and never rebuilt; that's where we're headed, and there are plenty of examples of cities like that, built by societies that made excuses, until they couldn't. The difference is that, this time, we can see it coming and still try to excuse our behaviour or pretend it isn't happening. The other difference is, this time it's global. Meanwhile, cities like Miami, which is already under water a lot of the time, keep doing this; gross misallocation of finite resources.......
.... so pardon me if I continue to point out that we're a deluded, greedy species that thrives on destroying things while telling ourselves how clever we are. Your answer is that we just need to continue to go deeper into overshoot. My answer is that there is no answer; not one that anyone will like.
Do you really think that the developers of that high rise give a shit that Miami will likely be under water and largely abandoned in another 30-50 years, or that the immense amount of resources poured into such a project
will never be available to future generations?