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You are creating multiple strawmen and arguing with yourself. > What the overpopulation people never figured out is that our rate of technological progress is
by antisthenes 9y ago
You are creating multiple strawmen and arguing with yourself.
> What the overpopulation people never figured out is that our rate of technological progress is faster than the rate that we use up resources, and it is faster by a long shot.
What the techno-optimists haven't figured out is that technological progress and the resources aren't unlimited, the only case where your argument makes any sense.
- stale2002 9y ago"that technological progress and the resources aren't unlimited" Of course they are not unlimited. In 1 billion years we will have hit that limit of technological progress. Before we hit that limit, 1 billion years from now, we have a long way to go, and the limit is 'effectively' unlimited, for all intensive purposes. The only way your argument makes any sense is if you think we will hit that limit within a decade or something. But all evidence points to the contrary, and that we instead will only have to worry about those limits, a long long time from now.
- majewsky 9y ago> In 1 billion years we will have hit that limit of technological progress. Citation needed.