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People saying "he doesn't address the downsides" could read the three pages on the same site which do address the downsides, and which are prominently linked ri
by dash2 3y ago
People saying "he doesn't address the downsides" could read the three pages on the same site which do address the downsides, and which are prominently linked right at the start of the essay:
https://rootsofprogress.org/unsustainable https://rootsofprogress.org/unsustainable
https://rootsofprogress.org/catastrophic-resource-shortages https://rootsofprogress.org/catastrophic-resource-shortages
https://rootsofprogress.org/can-growth-continue-ignite-talk https://rootsofprogress.org/can-growth-continue-ignite-talk
- throwanem 3y agoEverything in those links could have been more concisely expressed in a single sentence, short enough even to make a pithy quote, drawn from one of them: "The question of severe externalities is interesting and difficult, but let’s set it aside for the moment."
- dash2 3y agoThat’s completely untrue. For, example, the first of them has a lot of interesting and relevant history about how the decline of one scarce resource motivates the search for others.
- throwanem 3y agoIf you insist we also talk about the tendentiously presentist and heavily cherry-picked historiography here on display, then I suppose we can do that. Given your apparent partiality, though, I don't know why you'd want to.