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We don't need weapons or viruses or other catastrophes to end our civilisation. We just need to keep on breeding. World population has gone from about 2 billio
by bluescrn 6y ago
We don't need weapons or viruses or other catastrophes to end our civilisation. We just need to keep on breeding.
World population has gone from about 2 billion to almost 8 billion in the last 100 years.
We're well aware of the limited resources of our finite planet, yet the only metric of economic success is growth.
It's a pyramid scheme, and at some point, it has to collapse. Unless we expand beyond this planet, I suppose.
- samr71 6y ago> Unless we expand beyond this planet, I suppose The asteroid belt has the resources for millions of O'Neil cylinders and Stanford Toruses -- we'll be fine.