Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and...
by shkkmo on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:57PM
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Self-sustainability is definitely more than 50 years away (barring a major technological revolution.)
Once sustainability is achieved, exponential growth seems implicit (even if the base of that exponential growth is close to 1.)
Full, long term Sustainability is probably centuries away (at a bare minimum and assuming some very significant technological advancement.)
Ironically, the very technology (manufacturing, sealed stable ecological design, etc) that would allow a fully self-sufficient mars colony would also significantly reduce that set of possible civilization ending catastrophes on earth.
Once sustainability is achieved, exponential growth seems implicit (even if the base of that exponential growth is close to 1.)
Full, long term Sustainability is probably centuries away (at a bare minimum and assuming some very significant technological advancement.)
Ironically, the very technology (manufacturing, sealed stable ecological design, etc) that would allow a fully self-sufficient mars colony would also significantly reduce that set of possible civilization ending catastrophes on earth.