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Is a completely pollution free society an actual possibility?
With regard to the push towards additional human space travel in recent times, I wondered what would happen if a perfectly habitable planet was found. Would we immediately go there and pollute it with automobile exhaust, not-reusable materials etc.?
Scenario: We build a city on this new planet. All the work trucks are completely electric and don't pollute the air. All power to the city is provided by massive fields of solar panels, water turbines, and wind power. The only legal vehicles are 100% electric ones. Pollution and littering charges result in jail time at a minimum, in order to strongly encourage people to protect the environment.
Is this a possibility? Are there necessary elements to the construction of this society that require various forms of pollution, or is it a legitimate possibility to have a happy, thriving, pollution-free environment on this new, theoretical planet?
Love to know your thoughts. Thanks. :-)
1 Answer
- megalomaniacLv 710 months ago
No. It's not about "all or none". The very act of breathing increases CO2 in the world. Nobody is insisting that people stop breathing. However we would all be better off if we polluted less instead of more and more and more and more...
And we don't need to move to a different planet, we just need to take better care of this one. Without changing our habits even if we did find a perfect alternate planet to live on (that we could get to) we would probably just pollute that one too.