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by rebuilder 3010 days ago
If we consume too much, we'll never make it off the planet.
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If we consume too little, there will never be the required return on investment required to attract the capital required to make it off the planet.
The main limiting resource is energy, and we have enough coming from the sun to increase our consumption by several orders of magnitude.

The second limiting resource is low societal time preference, which I’m afraid we might run out of.