> Overall I don't think this is a fair argument against exponential growth.
Do we still need to make a fair claim against unrestricted exponential growth in 2024? Exponential growth claims have been made countless times in the past, and never delivered. Studies like the Limits to Growth report (1972) have shown the impossibility of unrestricted growth, and the underlying science can be used in other domains to show the same. There is no question that exponential growth doesn't exist, the only interesting question is how to locate the inflexion point.
Apparently the only limitless resource is gullible people.
A slowdown already happened once (the original pace was doubling every year), and I believe it's widely accepted that we're not going to keep the current pace for long.
Do we still need to make a fair claim against unrestricted exponential growth in 2024? Exponential growth claims have been made countless times in the past, and never delivered. Studies like the Limits to Growth report (1972) have shown the impossibility of unrestricted growth, and the underlying science can be used in other domains to show the same. There is no question that exponential growth doesn't exist, the only interesting question is how to locate the inflexion point.
Apparently the only limitless resource is gullible people.