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by VLM 3857 days ago
"you are going to finish all the Earth resources and die before you even get to a tenth of that!"

Its fun to watch the debate about the "before" clause, as if the precise fraction or integer matters in the long run, when the real problem is nobody wants to face the reality of chopping off the entire "before" clause.

Once we stop economically extracting cheap oil energy, resulting in a roll back of the green revolution productivity gains, in a couple years at best its game over for about 95% of present humanity. Good thing the supply of cheap oil is infinite, right?