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by empath-nirvana
927 days ago
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This is just a special case of this general phenomenon: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist... We can't have unlimited economic growth for ever without boiling the oceans, or without figuring out a way to have economic growth without increasing energy usage. It's not about global warming, it's about just waste heat and entropy, even assuming maximally efficient engines and 100% renewable energy. And really, all of that blog post is a special case of the observation that life is a way to more rapidly increase entropy on earth by finding and exploiting energy sources. Eventually earth will reach a life-induced thermal equilibrium which will be incompatible with the continued existence of life on earth. |
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