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> Your comment has the whiff of Magical Tech thinking to it.

Well, your post has the whiff of malthusian doomerism to it. Look up the Simon-Ehrlich wager. Ehrlich was wrong in every single respect. There are more people, yet they are economically better off. And nothing has run out.

And yet the ideology of Ehrlich and Malthus has prevailed in the west.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager




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