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Lol, you have no idea what you're talking about. I lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union. You don't want to live like that.
by throw5959 2y ago
Lol, you have no idea what you're talking about. I lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union. You don't want to live like that.
- lostlogin 2y agoIt was massive turmoil for sure, but world didn’t end (I’m referencing your earlier comment, not downplaying the devastating fall). How would continual growth work? We will run out of everything.
- throw5959 2y agoWe are not limited to Earth.
- lostlogin 2y agoWhat planet are you on? Yes we are.
- epistasis 2y agoContinual growth is possible in at least two ways: 1) standard sigmoids, which never stop growing yet are also finite 2) standard ecological growth, where growth is never ending but so is death. This is much more typical of systems like capitalism than sigmoids growth. New upstarts experience exponential growth for a whole, then peak, and then die. Of course be careful of mentioning these standard scientific observations around those in the degrowth cult, as the cognitive dissonance may cause an unpleasant explosion.