| The Earth is not nearly out of any such capacity. It might be running out of capacity to do so without changing in ways we care about. Possibly. But I do note that there is a distinct lack of interest in any attempts to solve that problem other than shrinking the population or dismantling our economies or ending any semblance of liberty. Indeed, most of the proposals are so extreme and draconian that they would lead to much more misery and death than simply doing nothing. Nobody is interested in even considering alternatives. Research to solve the problem is ongoing, but barely funded at all -- and yet tons of things are possible. Sure, fusion is interesting. But, other things are too. Safe and plentiful fission power would help, and is available today. Work on the chemistry of photosynthesis is promising -- imagine a truly carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fuel (the carbon in the fuel having come out of the air through artificial "plants"), but is barely funded at all. Direct carbon sequestration is an expensive, but possible, option (probably cheaper than just rolling society back to the middle ages!) But 99.9% of the energy is instead spent on terrible fantasies like "fundamentally restructuring" the economy away from profit and liberty. Because there is no desire to actually work the problem. Just like the original Malthus didn't care about the plight of the "surplus population," but instead had a political axe to grind. |