re: #109 Alyosha

The idea of exponential population growth in human society also only holds up if we ignore how education and economic development can cause declines leading to new problems such as how to adequately provide for an increasingly disproportionate aged demographic. I’m just trying to keep up here, I recognise the trends but haven’t the same intellectual understanding of the minutiae.

Also, exponential population growth (or any exponential growth when I think about it) also ignores that the real world/universe has hard limits. I mean, for the population growth, energy, environment and economy does have hard limits which will we will hit like a wasp hitting the windscreen of a Lamborghini at speed if we don’t slow the fuck down.
I guess the prospect of being a dead and wet smear of entrails on something which barely noticed it hit us isn’t realistic enough for some. *smh*
re: #109 Alyosha

BTW, watched your link to the BBC programme, ‘The Day the Earth Almost Died’. Didn’t have nightmares, but it was a good primer.

You have nightmares when you know people in the climatology field, more and more of them are privately voicing fears that we might be further along in climate change than expected, and that we are already beyond the point of no return.