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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Best case scenario: technology makes extremely cheap and green energy available to all. Now resources can be extracted at nearly zero marginal cost. An even worse problem then exists in that there are practically no controls to mineral extraction and consumption of physical resources. Consumerism goes on steroids compared to the fantastic spending we're already seeing today.
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This is what Hagens has said about wishfully thinking of a Star Trek future where something like unlimited fusion energy becomes available. Which would only serve to let us grow the human amoeba even larger and faster to scoop up the remaining non renewable resources to the end even sooner.
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Coming up with a whole new economic system which can function on degrowth will be the only viable solution to soften the inevitable collapse. We are already several decades into overshoot.