Nothing new for those of us who've been well convinced progress isn't limitless, and some of whom might even have heard of Tainter. What is new is that a fairl

Nothing new for those of us who've been well convinced progress isn't limitless, and some of whom might even have heard of Tainter. What is new is that a fairly mainstream news outlet is actually addressing the issue. A longtime litany of complaint in the "doomer" "community" (grains of salt needed) is that there's no mainstream consensus about or attention to these predicaments at either a root level or a big-picture level.