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> In fact, our current value and belief systems would not recommend such an expansion either. This just isn't true. There are current value and belief systems,
by aeorgnoieang 8y ago
> In fact, our current value and belief systems would not recommend such an expansion either.
This just isn't true. There are current value and belief systems, even ones held by people with a relative large amount of political and economic power, that do in fact recommend such an expansion (someday).
- DennisP 8y agoI would say it's the dominant value system, given that our global economy and energy consumption grows by around 2% per year, with no serious efforts to change that.
- dane-pgp 8y agoIt's worth pointing out that for developed economies like the US, UK, and Japan, the amount of per capita energy usage is the lowest it has been in decades: https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/0784d9d63336606d4ca02540d22b765f05709d5f/a5204/exports/energy-use-per-capita_v1_850x600.svg https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/0784d9d63336606d4ca025... This may be at least in part due to the shifting of energy-intensive industries to countries like China, but it does show that countries can continue to grow their GDP (per capita) while dropping their energy usage per capita, which bodes well for the future.