What Would a Sustainable Society Look Like?

Joseph Mellor
34 min readApr 1, 2022

You’ll gain a lot more than you’ll lose, even without considering the negative effects of climate change.

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Few, if any, specific plans have been drafted about what a sustainable future look like. At best, we have vague ideas that we should switch over to renewables and recycle and maybe take a bus if they exist in your city. While many people have come up with specific ways to make parts of society more sustainable, I want to provide a big picture for what it looks like and give you as many resources as possible so you can make an informed decision. As long as this article is, it’s still only a summary of the ideas, so I recommend you check out any of the linked resources that inter. Also, this is a long article, which means it’s going to get shredded by the algorithm (look how they massacred my boy), so please share if you found it interesting.

Quick Note

I’ll be back to publishing new articles in my two series The Road to Quantum Mechanics and How to Discover Finite Fields While Bored in Class after this article. I just had the idea for this article and couldn’t get it out of my mind.

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Joseph Mellor

BS in Physics, Math, and CS with a minor in High-Performance Computing. You can find all my articles at https://josephmellor.xyz/articles/.