The next innovation curve could be the last. (7 Meta Questions About Our Global Metabolism)

[@lukegardner6917]

Personally, I'm hoping for a ai miracle. As Hansen said, counting on miracles is a really poor plan. But currently a miracle is the only thing that could possibly address overshoot in a timely manner

[@lukegardner6917]

​@Dan-Rather lol Dan, you must be new here. I'll just solve the forever chemical problem, phosphorus shortage, water table, energy shortage, resource shortage and human hubris problems all by myself.

[@divided_and_conquered1854]

Finally - someone knows to say death knell instead of death nail.

[@madshorn5826]

Will the waste limit our possibilities before we run out of energy?
Sadly the answer looks to be yes.
Look up 'deep warming'.
Even if we solved fusion tomorrow, the waste energy heats the atmosphere.
Whether we isolate the greenhouse with a CO2 blanket or we put in a space heater the result is the same: Catastrophic warming.
At the moment our extra CO2 retain 460 TW excess heat and we use 18 TW energy.
Grow our energy consumption 25 times and we will have double the problem with warming we have today, even with a 100% CO2 free energy production starting today.
There are very hard limits to growth.

[@TennesseeJed]

Moloch is immortal.

[@ppetal1]

You just won't say stop, because you think you've got the best system. I don't think so.