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ttgurney | 3 years ago

Reminds me of the well-known quote I always enjoyed, though I never looked much into the context:

"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herbert_Stein#Quotes

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mjevans|3 years ago

Growth cannot continue forever without either changing the resource landscape (itrasolar / multi-planet / interstellar) OR exhausting resources.

Resource contention... usually wars get fought over that. Sometimes regional, increasingly global, and increasingly against the destruction of the commons. As we see with the rise in energy accumulating in the global weather systems due to changes to the composition of our atmosphere by unchecked industrial side effects and land use in previously ecologically carbon sink regions.