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Yes, a lot of people on this post have mentioned that with proper planning, a more long-term perspective and consideration for human well-being, growth doesn't
by joe_the_user 2y ago
Yes, a lot of people on this post have mentioned that with proper planning, a more long-term perspective and consideration for human well-being, growth doesn't have the same limits.
Sure, but if you had a consideration for human well-being, if you had a society where people thought about "what should things look like in a hundred or a thousand years" you wouldn't have any impetus for exponential growth.
- philipkglass 2y agoExponential growth in material resource consumption is necessarily a short term phenomenon on the scale of known history. The UCSD Do The Math guy has shown why exponential supply growth is not possible in the long run. The more binding constraint is the lack of demand growth. Even if the world had the capacity to supply every person with an extra 100 tons per year of steel or an extra 10 tons of pork, why would everyone buy that much? There's no point. It would be like hoarding drums full of seawater. Whether we plan for the end or not, the exponential growth era is transitory.