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"Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist." - Sir David Attenborough. Now we ca
by betolink 9y ago
"Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist." - Sir David Attenborough.
Now we can add "bitcoin investors" to the list.
- Codestare 9y agoWhat good is this? You might just as well post a bible verse.
- adventured 9y agoWhat makes that quote entirely meaningless, is that it doesn't in any way define the potential of the non-infinite growth. If humans can manage 2-3% global economic expansion per year vs sub 1% population expansion for the next several hundred years, growth might as well be infinite for our purposes. There's no reason to think that very modest outcome can't be accomplished given our demonstrated ability to make great technological leaps over time. Humans can also increase the resource potential of the planet through engineering, which has already begun in a massive way with eg agriculture and will dramatically accelerate with robotics, AI, CRISPR, etc. It also ignores the ability to harvest the solar system and pull greater resources toward earth, which we will do in the coming centuries. There's nobody of any credibility seriously proposing infinite growth, it's an invented strawman to easily knock down by Attenborough, for ideological purposes.