Regardless of what Elon is saying, it makes no sense to assume that exponential growth will continue forever. At some point (rather quickly), you run out of resources. Population growth at the global scale has begun to slow down. I don't know when it dips below 2.0 or gets to a stable state of 2.0, but it will eventually happen.
Re:Absurd Trolley Problems
by TrapLord_Rhodo on Sunday July 10, 2022 @12:44PM
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Why not? Exponential growth is all that i see around me. Exponential growth is the universe & all signs point to infinite.
We have an unbelievable amount of resources in our galaxy alone. I don't see anything slowing down in the near future.
One thing has been constant through history, population growth. I have seen no evidence that this is slowing, only that 'Developed nations' are having less kids. People seem to forget that develop nations don't really represent 'the world' as a whole. Southeast asia, India, rural parts of China, South America do not seem to have this problem and they represent that majority of the world as much as the west would like to hide that fact.
Also, we've already proved that artificial womb technology is theoretically possible... it's only a matter of a few generations until thats going to be abused.