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Re:Overshooting Earth’s Boundaries: An Interview with Bill Rees by baq on Friday October 06, 2023 @02:55PM (#37794714)
Most people are so used to hearing about GDP growing a few % per year they forget their physics lessons about exponential growth and biology experiments with bacteria on Petri dish. The two concepts are almost never connected in discussions, not sure why.
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Re:Overshooting Earth’s Boundaries: An Interview with Bill Rees by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Friday October 06, 2023 @03:29PM (#37795128)
> not sure why

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

Sometimes referred to as Sinclair's Law. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/

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Re:Overshooting Earth’s Boundaries: An Interview with Bill Rees by gshubert17 on Monday October 09, 2023 @10:00AM (#37820533)
"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist"

Attributed to many people, including Kenneth Boulding, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/07/11/exponential/

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