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The answer is now. The 2030s is the decade of peak everything. Production of everything has been growing exponentially, but at a cost that is growing fraster.
by Schroedingersat 4y ago
The answer is now. The 2030s is the decade of peak everything. Production of everything has been growing exponentially, but at a cost that is growing fraster.
From oil, to copper, to lithium, to rare metals, to meat, to topsoil, to methane, to classical computing, to GHG buffering capacity, almost all of the logistic curves we've been pretending are exponentials reach their inflection points in the next couple of decades.
- TapWaterBandit 4y agoThis type of thing has been said many times before. No reason to believe it will happen this time. I still vividly remember "peak oil" in the late 2000s/early 2010s.