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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by vkou on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @05:06PM (#16226788)
The former. At our current consumption levels/technology, we are obviously above our planet's current carrying capacity.

This is not controversial. We are living on borrowed time - our civilization currently relies on the consumption of non-renewable resources, and the non-sustainable consumption of renewable resources.

Even if this is sustainable for 10, 20, or 100 years, it is not sustainable for longer time horizons.

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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by dane-pgp on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @09:32PM (#16228315)
It's worth pointing out that for developed economies like the US, UK, and Japan, the amount of per capita energy usage is the lowest it has been in decades:

https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/0784d9d63336606d4ca025...

This may be at least in part due to the shifting of energy-intensive industries to countries like China, but it does show that countries can continue to grow their GDP (per capita) while dropping their energy usage per capita, which bodes well for the future.

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