trevor's solution to climate change (take 1)
contraceptives, or possibly cyborgs.
no joke.
first, more safe sex would solve a lot of the world's problems by a considerable amount. try to picture how much a human consumes, breathes, and pollutes in a lifetime. even just one life's worth of carbon dioxide exhaled and food eaten would probably fill more football fields than expected. wouldn't a less populated earth be more sustainable? i can't even tell if i'm being facetious.
some of this thinking came from reading a bit of post-human theory. while often fairly ridiculous and unfocused, some of the writing in this area can be quite insightful, and led me to a slightly different take on this.
from Donna Harraway's A Cyborg Manifesto:
"Sexual reproduction is one kind of reproductive strategy among many, with costs and benefits as a function of the system environment. Ideologies of sexual can no longer reasonably call on notions of sex and sex role as organic aspects in natural objects like organisms and families."
so maybe if we stop being monogamous and having "families" as we understand them, stop pretending that gender is a valid classification, and wonder what it would be like to skip the step of original unity, humans could exist in a world indistinguishable from their own bodies.
let me put it another way. there is nothing about being "female" that naturally binds women. there isn't really such as state as "being" female. your personal reality is only known to yourself, but the integration of machine into human is something knowable. if humans become what they create, do people become architecture? could this human landscape effectively solve melting icebergs and ozone holes?
to quote Donald Kaufman, "you are what you love, not what loves you." maybe we need to love ourselves more, and, in doing so, love our world.
