Thursday, September 5, 2019

The enduring limits to growth



One of the authors of the classic "Limits to Growth" lectures 47 years later.

It seems the next 10 or 15 years will be the decisive ones to really judge whether LTG was bunk or prophecy.

That is, we might get a steep decline beginning in 2030, or Julian Simon and Ayn Rand might be resurrected by zombie nano-bots and inaugurate a new Golden Age of plenty, bounty and protein-rich locusts bred on Greenland with the help of really cold fusion power.

I think you know what option I´m betting on, but sure, I could have missed some exponential techno-variable…

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