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Definitely not degrowth, maybe low growth if high energy stuff cannot be moved off planet and results transported back with low heat impact. (Or no other ways o
by RandomLensman 4y ago
Definitely not degrowth, maybe low growth if high energy stuff cannot be moved off planet and results transported back with low heat impact. (Or no other ways of cooling are found).
Also, for example, innovation from growing economies elsewhere can reach back to earth. Expensive stuff that relies on growth can continue to happen and the results shared.
Carrying capacity of the solar system is huge, so quite some growth to be captured there. Once it is exhausted, growth for earth and the solar system might slow down because information will have significant travel time. And we haven't even exhausted earth and earth will become uninhabitable ultimately anyway so terminal sustainability is not truly needed.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoEnergy growth on earth must end this century. This entails growth in most primary industries also ending, as well as a large reduction in many. This is incompatible with a system where people starve and everything breaks whenever growth goes below 2%. "Stop giving everything to the people who already have stuff so we need the pie to grow at an exponential rate just to keep the share that goes to 99.99% of the world constant" isn't a hard concept.