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It’s based on extrapolation of current trends, so I doubt it’ll actually happen. Besides, we’d all die before it got to that. But here are some sources that d
by nostromo 3y ago
It’s based on extrapolation of current trends, so I doubt it’ll actually happen. Besides, we’d all die before it got to that. But here are some sources that describe it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vRtA7STvH4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vRtA7STvH4 (commentary from Sabrine Hossenfelder, highly recommended)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01652-6.epdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01652-6.epdf
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/can-economic-growth-last/ https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/can-economic-growth-last/
- EnigmaFlare 3y agoThanks. The video says in 400 years the surface temperature of Earth will be 100 degrees if we assume exponential growth of heat generation. So yea it's that clearly bad assumption of exponential growth that spoils it.