throwaway6532

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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>Population is projected to level out, so it's a moot point. Is it projected to level out or to decline? Because birth rates below replacement indicate decline, not leveling out.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Don't forget how the bronze age ended.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
What say your population of young people halved every generation for three generations. Would your city or country have enough people to keep it functioning given the level of specialization required for the level of complexity it is based
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>You can be optimistic about the long arc of human progress and still realistic about our ability to take catastrophic steps backwards This is the line I'm straddling at the moment. If you're not realistic about our ability to
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Looks like you're getting downvoted, but it seems kind of obvious this is the case. Technology has allowed more people to exist, and more people are using more energy and more resources. I think it causes cognitive dissonance in that p
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Is this in theory or in practice? At this point it's a race against the clock and we're losing it badly. If we can't transition to it before it's too late, then that we could do it in theory isn't worth a whole lot.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
What about technology for fixing water shortages due to over-pumping? What about technology to address usages of sand? What about technology to replace synthetic fertilizers derived from natural gas, and or finite resources of phosphate roc
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>or at risk of being revoked when the government changed hands. This is happening now. Everyone is focused on getting to "net-zero" and switching to natural gas as a "transition" to cleaner, more sustainable energy so
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>Why would population decline be a problem? If doomsday predictions about population growth are to be dismissed because technology has always kept up with the increasing needs of humanity, what is the argument against technology keeping
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>Lowered birth rates is actually a good thing, if we're going to be honest about our way of life and its sustainability problem. As a species, we are going to have to make some hard decisions about what quality of life we want to ha
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>Avoid, be bland, lie? There is no integrity here. Integrity is a trap.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
There seems to be two camps of people in the comments here. One camp is saying more or less what you say, and the other camp is people who have had it happen to them personally and don't wish to expose themselves to the possibility of
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
I gave one doozy of an answer once in an anonymous feedback survey. I then started to feel quite bad about it and realized probably it's not so hard to figure out who that feedback possibly came from. I went to my skip level boss and l
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
I have shared direct, honest feedback to my skip level boss before, during and after the course of somewhat disastrously run projects. I've kept in regular contact with my old team since leaving and thanks to my feedback the company ha
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
You, my friend, are not cynical enough.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
My experience has been the opposite :(
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Who is starting to think this?
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
All 3 are disorder from where I'm standing :(
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Yeah. Humans are actually mildly terrible creatures and when you scale humanity it becomes simply awful.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Well lets not forget the whole physically stronger and pumped more full of testosterone aspect of it too. But yes, this is also a good point. If you had a choice about sending people who could manufacture new humans to the slaughterfields o
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>There's a conundrum where you either have to respect women's choices and see the mid career pay gap as inevitable, or see women's desire to be prioritize child rearing over career as internalized misogyny. There's al
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
If that's how it is at every single company then saying "just make it the same" probably isn't the answer.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>The reality of Swiss knives is that they don't excel in anything of the things they do. Except the one thing that do excel at: being swiss army knives.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Way ahead of you.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
It's also stunning to think about how many people legit rely on humanitarian aid to stay alive, and if things break down to the point where that starts to dry up then that has a big effect on those populations.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>A 1% decline in supply can have an enormous impact on price, because price is set at each instant by the marginal buyer and seller. I think this is where "elastic" vs "inelastic" demand makes a big difference.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
I guess markets are functional proportional to their level of certainty with respect to future events. Information is a reduction in uncertainty, so if you are missing information you need in order to make pricing decisions because it'
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
They have 4 months worth of strategic reserves and I read somewhere planned deliveries will bring that up to 8 months worth. I think the danger is in future if those 8 months worth get burnt through and replacements don't come. That&#x
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
In general if you were to take away synthetic fertilizers and rely only on traditional agriculture without over-pumping water from aquifers you start to realize that the population of planet earth is only possible to sustain at its current
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
The previous rise in food prices also being attributable to the Russian heatwave of 2010 being the link to climate change.

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