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This is just bullshit negativity wrapped up in an academic veneer. Prepare for explosive and unlimited growth instead. Invest into new skills. Be optimistic. Ma
by wait_a_minute 3y ago
This is just bullshit negativity wrapped up in an academic veneer. Prepare for explosive and unlimited growth instead. Invest into new skills. Be optimistic. Make everything better around you. Make systems better and more efficient around you. We will obtain limitless resources from other stars, planets, and rocks floating around in space. We will create new innovations that will once again change the calculus on resource utilization and give us more yield even with far less input.
Human systems will continue to improve. We will produce better systems and better software and better hardware. We will renew what is already in place and settle the moon, Mars, Venus, Europa, Pluto, and beyond.
Keep in mind that the global population will drop significantly below replacement in the coming decades as well.
- Loquebantur 3y agoWhere do you propose your "limitless" supply of toys to fit within the finite confines of earth? Even if you could "spread out to the stars", earth stays a closed system. It can take only a finite amount of pollution, which we actually already overstepped. You propose escapism. That's not a solution.
- wait_a_minute 3y agoEarth is indeed finite, but if presently accessible resources give humanity tens of thousands of years of runway, that is for all intents and purposes limitless - because in that time the science and tech that get developed will resemble magic. Consider how peak oil turned out to not be a problem after all. Now humanity is on the verge of a renaissance in nuclear reactors, a revolution in fusion reactors, and the success of renewables deployment at scale. I propose making everything better around us.