Oct 19, 2004 10:29
1. We have an economy which must always grow, or crash.
2. It is impossible for our economy to keep growing forever, with constraints like finite space on earth, finite resources, etc.
3. From 1 and 2, our economy will one day crash.
4. The number of people that will die, the amount of suffering people will undergo, and the destruction people will cause to the earth in despiration will be proportional to how big our economy is when it crashes.
5. As our economy grows, our dependence on high technology rises and our ability to live without it decreases.
6. From 3, 4, and 5, if our economy must crash, the optimum time for it to crash to limit death, suffering, global destruction, and our inability to survive would be...
ASAP.