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Lost me at "Also, keep in mind I care about the environment but I don’t drink the Kool-aid." Even in September of 2021, that was a fatuous and stupid remark tha

Lost me at "Also, keep in mind I care about the environment but I don’t drink the Kool-aid." Even in September of 2021, that was a fatuous and stupid remark that tells me this is another "Erm, actually...." theorist who never sets foot in the street.

hackerlight 4y ago
If you actually read it you'd realize how wrong you are to think that this man is just a theorist who never sets foot in the street.
- kuhewa 4y ago
  The letter from the on the ground Bosnian perspective isn't from the author of the blog post that made the non sequitur about the environment, he notes is just replicated there. The author is Scott, who is indeed a survival hobbyist and retired US Navy according to his biography.
- bshipp 4y ago
  I read it. If you disagree with the assertion that "finite resources do not support infinite future growth" then the entire argument falls apart. Finite resources do not support infinite resource exploitation, that much is obvious. humans, however, have access to vast sums of energy via the sun and internal earth processes, as well as the capacity to reach out to the solar system if the shortage of any other resources were depleted on earth. We could already do this but for the niggling fact that the cost to exploit extra-terrestrial resources is higher than the current value of those resources. Regardless, raw material extraction and manufacturing is only a portion of overall economic activity, and a fairly small portion at that. The majority of growth over the past 50 years is in non-resource-dependent industries, which theoretically is not tightly bound by finite resource constraints. In fact, what we are finding now is numerous Western industries determining that their primary operational constraint is not natural resource availability but the lack of accessible human capital. There are too few humans for the available jobs.
  - 11thEarlOfMar 4y ago
    In essence, all nodes are borrowers against the value of one room night in the hotel. The chain of repayment was destined to happen at the point that the innkeeper sold his next room. This is an illustration of how debt can drive economic activity, since all nodes consumed something of value in return for a promise to pay later.
Mildlypolite 4y ago
Yep, I mean we are in 2022. The only kool aid you can drink is that the problem is not as severe as someone says. In the meanwhile we are having a drought in Italy, that will decrease our agricultural production by 30%,some zones by 50%. Of course, we have a problem.
bandyaboot 4y ago
That’s where it became clear to me that there probably wasn’t going to be much substance here. What does that even mean?

hackerlight 4y ago

If you actually read it you'd realize how wrong you are to think that this man is just a theorist who never sets foot in the street.

kuhewa 4y ago
The letter from the on the ground Bosnian perspective isn't from the author of the blog post that made the non sequitur about the environment, he notes is just replicated there. The author is Scott, who is indeed a survival hobbyist and retired US Navy according to his biography.
bshipp 4y ago
I read it. If you disagree with the assertion that "finite resources do not support infinite future growth" then the entire argument falls apart. Finite resources do not support infinite resource exploitation, that much is obvious. humans, however, have access to vast sums of energy via the sun and internal earth processes, as well as the capacity to reach out to the solar system if the shortage of any other resources were depleted on earth. We could already do this but for the niggling fact that the cost to exploit extra-terrestrial resources is higher than the current value of those resources. Regardless, raw material extraction and manufacturing is only a portion of overall economic activity, and a fairly small portion at that. The majority of growth over the past 50 years is in non-resource-dependent industries, which theoretically is not tightly bound by finite resource constraints. In fact, what we are finding now is numerous Western industries determining that their primary operational constraint is not natural resource availability but the lack of accessible human capital. There are too few humans for the available jobs.
- 11thEarlOfMar 4y ago
  In essence, all nodes are borrowers against the value of one room night in the hotel. The chain of repayment was destined to happen at the point that the innkeeper sold his next room. This is an illustration of how debt can drive economic activity, since all nodes consumed something of value in return for a promise to pay later.

Mildlypolite 4y ago

Yep, I mean we are in 2022. The only kool aid you can drink is that the problem is not as severe as someone says. In the meanwhile we are having a drought in Italy, that will decrease our agricultural production by 30%,some zones by 50%. Of course, we have a problem.

bandyaboot 4y ago

That’s where it became clear to me that there probably wasn’t going to be much substance here. What does that even mean?