Saying Out Loud What Others Won't Even Whisper About Climate Change
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Kerry is right that a population of 10 billion won't be sustainable, but this spokesperson for the world's richest country is pointing this out without offering any solutions.

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 JonesOPMEnglish
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    3 年前

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

    • CanadaPlusEnglish
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      3 年前

      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 MetalEnglish
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      3 年前

      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.