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    1 year ago

    But of course, that also denies humanity, and humanity’s ambitious nature.

    Man, I hope you’re wrong about that, because Earth isn’t growing any bigger. We did live in rough balance with things for about a million years, so I have hope.

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      Earth isn’t growing any bigger, but we have surpassed “limits” described by scientists without the collapse they predicted.

      The actual capacity of Earth isn’t a fixed value.

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        Which limits are you thinking of? We’re past the carrying capacity on certain fronts, but that was never a “will collapse” thing as much as a “we’re going into debt” thing, and I think they were first calculated after we had passed them.

        There’s some ways in which we can stretch the Earth, but there’s some that are set in stone. Energy budget comes to mind; we only get so much sunlight, and even if we start doing fusion to sidestep the sun we only have so much ability to radiate waste heat. Energy use on Earth will have to plateau within the next few centuries.