It’s all fine and good for John Kerry to utter a fundamental truth about a major driver of climate catastrophe, but it is a useless proclamation without offering a solution.

Have enough tipping points been breached that there are no prescriptions to offer?

  • Avogadro JonesOPM
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    11 year ago

    Interesting. I wonder if there are any economic models that recognize that infinite growth can not be achieved when resources are finite.

    • @CanadaPlus
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      21 year ago

      I seem to remember reading a blog post from a physicist about this. He was talking to an economist who though growth would continue forever, but then he pointed out current levels of energy consumption growth would take only a few centuries to get to the point of cooking the Earth just with waste heat.

    • Death Metal
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      21 year ago

      May not even require economics. Space in Earth is finite and each human requires more space not just to live but for food, products, schooling, hospitals, government offices, restaurants, etc.