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Necronmon posted...

Its one thing to control which energy can come out but as soon as it becomes" Goverment forbidds you from doing anything fun you want to do " they are going to be loathed and resisted.

Even China has not had this kind of control over its pepole, it would take someone like Superman to enforce the world giving up every single thing harmful to the planet.

Even with controlling energy, we have that problem with society as it is comprised right now. Voters are still more influenced by prices at the gas pump than things that will affect their children years down the road. And that's including elections where gas prices aren't really even relevant.

As for taking away certain activities, yes there would be a strong backlash, but there are a lot of things we prohibit because of the social harm it would cause. The only difference is that it's much harder to take away rights than not give them in the first place. I think the activities we should do away with are those that cause egregious harm in proportion to the amount of people it serves and in what way it serves them. I think cruise ships are an easily substitutable form of leisure, especially once more of these parasitic boomers die off (and as much as I love many of them, I want nothing more for the majority of that generation than for them to realize the extent of their selfishness currently and internalize that guilt... not the healthiest mindset, I admit). NASCAR races and, in my case, concerts, are things I would reserve for last resort measures but I hate to think of what point we'd be at by then.