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>> "Would you mind elaborating on this or posting some links with more evidence for this?" I'm not the GP, but I suspect api has in mind something like this [0
by avn2109 12y ago
>> "Would you mind elaborating on this or posting some links with more evidence for this?"
I'm not the GP, but I suspect api has in mind something like this [0]. The money quote from that article is this:
"At that 2.3% growth rate, we would be using energy at a rate corresponding to the total solar input striking Earth in a little over 400 years."
The obvious first-order thermodynamic consequences of that fact for the temperature of the surface of the earth are pretty undeniable.
[0] http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist/ http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-...
- privong 12y agoThanks. I had seen that calculation before, but had forgotten about it. It is good to remember that we will eventually come up against limits from basic physics. Though, to be a bit picky, showing that we can't indefinitely sustain our current trajectory is a different argument than saying a collapse is inevitable.