> The whole point is that eventually a planetary population must stop producing more energy. Those that don't, die. Haven't read him until now, to be honest, b

> The whole point is that eventually a planetary population must stop producing more energy. Those that don't, die. Haven't read him until now, to be honest, but this discussion and some other recent threads from HN make me really want to start reading Georgescu-Roegen's work [1]: > He is best known today for his 1971 The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, in which he argued that all natural resources are irreversibly degraded when put to use in economic activity. A progenitor and a paradigm founder in economics, Georgescu-Roegen's work was decisive for the establishing of ecological economics as an independent academic sub-discipline in economics. There was a HN-er who had some good comments about Georgescu-Roegen in the past, not sure if he's still active (I can't remember his username) or if he'll see this comment to add some further insights. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Georgescu-Roegen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Georgescu-Roegen