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Maybe not this decade, but at latest in the 2030s, we (or our children) will look back on our current consumption patterns in utter disgust.

For context: I live in a city in East Germany, and there is a tourist attraction called "Trabi Safari" where people can do sightseeing in Trabant cars (the East German model that according to folklore was made from cardboard). Whenever I walk down the street and a line of these cars drives by me, I'm disgusted by the smell of the exhaust and wonder how people could stand to live in a city full of these cars. I imagine that 2040 kids will look back on the 2010s in the same way that I look back on that aspect of the 1980s.



I'm hoping that when my kids grow up they're horrified that we ever drove gas-powered cars.


That sounds crazy. Nobody is horrified by trains burning coal, noone is horrified by old tech. It is part of progress.

They should be horrified by wars, political unrest and so on...


Lots of people are horrified that we used to put lead in everything.




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