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This article, while interesting, is like reading a weather forecast that says "there might be a big storm at the end of the week, but there might not". The idea
by blowski 11y ago
This article, while interesting, is like reading a weather forecast that says "there might be a big storm at the end of the week, but there might not". The idea that the population can't keep on growing exponentially and using ever more resources has been around since ancient Greece at least.
I'm sure that if we were able to look at long term economic stats for the last 2 millennia, there would be graphs that looked very similar to those in this article.
Of course, one day the population and our use of resources has to stop growing, but I doubt we'll see it coming 100 years in advance.
- gph 11y ago>Of course, one day the population and our use of resources has to stop growing, but I doubt we'll see it coming 100 years in advance. I can't speak to resource usage, but I think you'll find population models have the global population plateauing within the next 50-100 years. We aren't talking about what's going to happen in 2000 years here, that no one can be certain of. Your argument is like saying it's rained and stormed for 2000 years why even try to predict the weather for the rest of the week? I hope you don't mind, but I think I'll still pay attention to the weather forecast even if it isn't always 100% accurate.