Comment by bell-cot
18 hours ago
For reducing energy use, social values matter at least as much as technology. Imagine if we had no better technology - but most people drove small cars instead of large SUV's and trucks, and jet plane trips were not routine for hundreds of millions of people.
> and jet plane trips were not routine for hundreds of millions of people
So lower standards of living.
Does going on a jet plane mean you have a higher standard of living?
Feel free to live in a modest-sized, well-insulated version of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breakers with a live-in domestic staff serving your meals on solid gold plates.
Or is your definition of luxury "performative wasting of energy"? If so, the lower the tech that you have access to, the better for the rest of humanity. :(
> the lower the tech that you have access to, the better for the rest of humanity.
Back in the early 2000's when I saw Pres. Bush on the TV, he would say something like, "... and they hate our way of life" and I assumed that had to do with our secular way of having different religions around or something.
As I get older, I realize that he was talking about the above quote.