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> Its just not sustainable.

Everything feels like that all the time. And yet we constantly find ourselves 10 years down the line, with years of exponential growth piled on top, and some post-Malthusian explanation of how "actually it is sustainable if we just keep pushing through and believe in progress".

I'm not saying this or that _is_ sustainable, just that the point people declare it "unsustainable" is often only the beginning. It's a (mis)perception David Goggins speaks of a lot - about just how much deeper an organism can dig in crisis, or how low our pain/risk thresholds are set. Maybe we unconsciously factor that in.

Personally I think that's reckless and we are better heeding warning signs. But if we'd done that in 1970 climate change wouldn't be a thing, right.

[vouaobrasil]

Well, so far we have proof of unsustainability: we've already raised the extinction rate of species hundreds of times the background rate. So, already unsustainable.