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Musikcookie t1_itb83s7 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in What we don't owe the future | Longtermism is a philosophy of grandiose ambition but short on useful insights. Our moral obligation is to improve the society we live in, not the ones to come. by IAI_Admin

Yup. But just because something is, doesn’t mean it has to stay that way.

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[deleted] t1_itb8p88 wrote

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Musikcookie t1_itb8zco wrote

No. But we can do research for recycling technology and make sure energy for those smart phones is produced sustainably.

Also it’s on a scale. You can do it more or less environmentally friendly. So even if we just lived less unsustainably, it’d already be better than just being like “there’s no phone fairy so it’s just a moral quandary, oh well”.

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