“Resources are not limited. Only human knowledge is limited.”
I see where it’s coming from: human beings have been pushing so hard for so long. Sometimes it does seem that we do not have any limit. Who would have thought WiFi would be a thing –wireless computer network when you need one cable to be connected?- AND be so ubiquitous in the early stages of the internet mid 90s? Not a single soul. Wireless data transfer sounded like goddamn science-fiction. We’re amazing.
Yet, our world is finite. There’s something, at some point, that just blocks us. Earth’s gravity. Oil supply. Radio frequency. I know, humans are absolutely fabulous at squeezing shit out. Moore’s law is kind of dead but we’re still hitting the 2nm process by uh, squeezing again. And lying (the process is not really 2nm).
That’s the whole point this article ignores: humanity has been squeezing everything for the past few decades. The squeezing has become harder and harder if not totally impossible by now. We’re squeezing so much, we have to lie now. Fracking is good! Slavery in Congo or China to make batteries for our devices doesn’t exist!
That’s not a good sign for the next twenty years, at all.
People just don’t get how much bigger our global economy is compared to twenty years ago, and how exponential our resources digging has gone. We’re gargantuans eating this planet and ourselves alive.
Now grown folks seriously talking about “it’s fine, we’ll mine the rest of the galaxy then” when space is the most hostile environment ever? I mean. Sure, go ahead.
The "fuck it we’ll figure it out later (when I’m dead)" argument from very smart people makes me think that they’re not very smart people. Frustrating because they’re running us into the ground.
Earth demands that we consume less and redistribute better. The end.