Reply #2: Interesting comment ...

[Nihil]

> ... and the equally, if more subtly, delusional claim that some suite of
> technologies currently in the vaporware stage will permit the American
> middle class to have its planet and eat it too.

It strikes me that this is what so many are hoping for in the technological
miracle that will happen "real soon now": something to "permit (people) to
have its planet and eat it too".

The response that you get if you mention the "C" word ("C*ns*rv*t**n") in this
country (never mind in the USA) is largely a form of frightened denial that
there could be any problem in existence that would be serious enough as to
require any restraint in their duty to consume, consume, consume.

:shrug: