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If you read some criticisms of our economic system, they propose that growth will continue unabated without any limits, but after a couple hundred years, that e

If you read some criticisms of our economic system, they propose that growth will continue unabated without any limits, but after a couple hundred years, that exponential gets to the point that all the waste heat cannot be dissipated from the earth any longer and it all breaks down.

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rgmerk 2y ago
If you’re postulating unbounded growth, seems pretty arbitrary to not postulate engineering solutions to this problem (eg shift the energy intensive industry off-Earth).