Re:The Chinchillas and the Gold Mine (2020)
by blamazon on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:12PM
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If we don't get our act together soon emissions wise, a climate disaster and millions to billions of ensuing refugees may put a kink in the infinite growth economic model in the next few hundred years.
Interestingly that's similar to one hypothesis as to how the Bronze Age collapsed - climate refugees from a non-man-made disaster destabilizing a complex economy where each civilization relied on another for goods and services.
People want to have children. Those children want a first world standard of living. The governments want population and per capita consumption to continue growing, because that's what drives our economy.
I feel we are at the point where we can't meet those needs and desires sustainably for everyone. If anything, industrialization and scale of industrial activity will continue to grow.