Brilliant. Yes, we're facing a consumption catastrophe, so let's distribute more funding toward more people so they can consume more. This is almost as fantast

Brilliant. Yes, we're facing a consumption catastrophe, so let's distribute more funding toward more people so they can consume more. This is almost as fantastic as the HN zeitgeist of: 1. OMG there's a climate apocalypse coming due to the carbon emissions of about a billion people! 2. There's another 6 billion people we need to either import into, or bring up to the living standards (e.g. carbon footprint) of, those first 1 billion. 3. What? Oh lol you heartless rationalist, #2 doesn't conflict with #1 because uhhhh.... Elon Musk exists? (no analysis of the actual energy requirements and fossil fuel mix over time is provided or considered, just an assumption of cornucopian miracles) No, TFA is correct. We need to consume less, end our obsession with "growth", and most importantly, divest ourselves of the bleeding-heart suicidal idea of quadrupling our energy requirements with immigration and/or foreign aid. There will be a time to do that, when our energy mix is largely renewables, but not yet, and not within at least half a century.