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Isn't the whole world a fixed pie? Sure, technological advances let us make more efficient use of our resources, but they're still finite.
by mwcampbell 5y ago
Isn't the whole world a fixed pie? Sure, technological advances let us make more efficient use of our resources, but they're still finite.
- WalterBright 5y ago> Isn't the whole world a fixed pie? Nope. We use energy to transform valueless things into ever more valuable things.
- mwcampbell 5y agoSomeday our current cheap energy will run out, and we'll just have to divide up what we have left. At least, that's what I hear. People have been predicting this for a while, and it hasn't happened yet (at least where I live in the US), but that doesn't mean it won't.
- WalterBright 5y agoThe Earth is just a dot in the sphere around the Sun through which all the Sun's energy passes.
- Apocryphon 5y agoAnd eventually the sun will become a red giant, devouring the earth.
- leetcrew 5y agowe have about 5 billion years to figure out a solution to that. I'm not too worried.