You're looking at bacterias on a petri dish. They are exponentially taking over the dish and soon will collapse under their own activity. That's us. An advanta

You're looking at bacterias on a petri dish. They are exponentially taking over the dish and soon will collapse under their own activity. That's us. An advantage we have over the bacterias is that we can discuss together how we will face the limits of our box. Saying "not slowing down and consuming everything in the dish is not serious" confuses me. It's the only serious thing here. Everything else is noise before we collapse. Exponential scale is scary. Bacterias doubling every cycle means 1 cycle before the bottle is full, it's half full. You're looking around and there is still plenty of room. Next cycle it's 100% and you're gasping for air. Humans don't double every cycle but you only need 7% growth to double in 10 years. So when you hear that we use X% more steel or coal every year, keep in mind it's a doubling cycle every few years. Reducing consumption (per capita and/or population size) is the only serious discussion to not hit the walls and gasp for air