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>They buy air travel to nicer places (less polluted) to make holidays, because where they live is not pretty anymore.

The latest in argument tactics is just plain old making shit up, huh?

>Besides, I am not convinced that it is a decision between "enjoying the fruits of technology and destroying our world or living like in the stone age, but sustainable". Waste from producing iPads can be processed properly, rather than dumping it into the nearest river. It is a matter of figuring out the proper ways of conduct and proper prices.

Sounds like you're in agreement with the author!

Scientific progress is not instantaneous. It does not go boink. The capacity to solve many of our current problems exists, but any programmer ought to know that implementation is never the easy part.




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