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> You can't have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources. Blasphemy! I bet less than half of the otherwise smart people acknowledge this. Or they thi
by fargolime 13y ago
> You can't have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources.
Blasphemy! I bet less than half of the otherwise smart people acknowledge this. Or they think we'll just terraform Mars some other planet light years away, soon enough.
- Zigurd 13y agoYou didn't have to wait long for the Mars immigrants, did you? The problem is that accumulating enough energy to leave Earth will be very difficult. Oil still is tightly coupled to wealth. And if we survive long enough to decouple it, and are lucky enough that that is a smooth transition and don't end up way too poor to go to Mars, getting to Mars is still going to be a trip for wealthy masochists with no impact on human survival. (Wait, maybe Elon Musk is playing some Vonnegut-esque Marxist long con on the 1%'ers.) I would find the Pollyannas more believable if we had a production line for thorium reactors cranking them out like the Chinese build coal powerplants.