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Re:Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: a PLAN f... by actually_a_dog on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:06AM (#32934679)
> Not to be a buzz kill but things have been getting better.

Past performance does not guarantee future results. In fact, what this article is saying is that mathematically, our future results are practically guaranteed to be worse than they have been in the past. I don't find your comment at all persuasive because you have not even attempted to grapple with this issue presented in the article.

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Re:Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: a PLAN f... by FeepingCreature on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:26AM (#32936983)
No, but past performance does provide evidence, and in the outside view, "no really, this really is the time where we're growing too much and are gonna collapse" has not been true yet. Will it happen eventually? It has to. Will this be the one? Probably not. Are we close to the limits where it'll actually occur? Probably not.
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Re:Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: a PLAN f... by diputsmonro on Thursday September 22, 2022 @01:56PM (#32942397)
Did... did you read the article you're commenting on?
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