Posthuman tech seems like a pretty big wild card in a framework for sustainability. Also hard to imagine a future world in which our sexual impulses are almost entirely vestigial. I guess we're already most of the way there! It just feels like the modern era, as envisioned, eventually takes us somewhere that isn't fully human, in which case the definition of "standard of living" goes up for grabs.
Posthuman tech seems like a pretty big wild card in a framework for sustainability. Also hard to imagine a future world in which our sexual impulses are almost entirely vestigial. I guess we're already most of the way there! It just feels like the modern era, as envisioned, eventually takes us somewhere that isn't fully human, in which case the definition of "standard of living" goes up for grabs.