former oceanic wrote:Answer D: "Work more to earn less but continue to consume more by making more credits"
Yes, of course, work harder to earn less, but without demining the gross national product, without diminishing the damage to the environment. In a nutshell, the pollution produced is proportional to GDP. If we double production, we also double the production of greenhouse gases, all things being equal (no better technologies that consume less energy).
If there is not enough work for all in France, it is because of the development of the machinery and the computer on the one hand, of the outsourcing in countries with low cost of manpower on the other hand. The energy we consume in large quantities, allows us to have 100 mechanical slaves.
What is the use of polluting the planet if we are to work as much as in the nineteenth century? Obviously, these 19 mechanical slaves have alleviated the hardness of our daily lives.
Unfortunately, instead of being content with this significant gain, we consume in addition products with little interest in our daily lives but which endanger the planet (additional production of greenhouse gases). This drift from our consumer society is linked to commercialism and the desire of some to grab the wealth of the greatest number. So you are selling useless products that are exchanged against euros that you have earned hard.
Without a major discovery in the coming 10 years, our society will go straight into the wall.
It is therefore necessary to find a way to use additional energy free of pollution or in other words learn to build machines with a very high coefficient of performance. Heat pumps improved in some way.
Stay optimistic, it's in the realm of possibility and the technology could quickly reach the market!