Comment by version_five

Just want to say how lame that is. What's the point of even living then? Why not think about how we can enjoy life sustainability and pragmatically instead of doing without for essentially religious reasons. This doesn't mean pretending to be happy while not doing stuff, it means finding ways to do what we want in such a way that our kids can do it to. Otherwise we might as well strip mine everything now and then shut down into the kind of lifestyle zealots are proposing. Some kind of pious self denial is as old as society I guess, but it doesn't help anything. What kind of a defeatist society do we have that people advocate giving up?