Mustafa Klap

@blackelephant118883

Rustenburg, Netherlands Joined Jan 2026

Only @blackelephant118883 can see everyone listening in. Visitors see a rotating sample.

Mustafa Klap echoed

Mustafa Klap

@blackelephant118883 · Jan 11, 2026

Jackson Anderson

@ticklishwolf217949 · Jan 11, 2026 11:38 am

CMV: "we cant have infinite growth in a finite world" is a dumb harmful idea

Why its dumb:
That is the whole point of technology! If resources are limited we find better ways to do valuable things with the existing ones. We have been doing this for centuries (or, arguably, since before we became homo sapiens sapiens)
There might be a limit to that, a point in which our technology is so great no significant improvement is possible (or at least not practical). But we are nowhere close to that. And any limits we might theorize today are based on our current understanding of physics, which is likely to change in the long timeframe it would take for us to reach the limit
And we have no reason to restrict ourselves to the resources of earth. We can - and should - colonize space. The moon. The planets, the asteroids and then the stars. And while we are at it we should do a dyson swarm of space stations around the sun. With multiple copies of earth biome if we want
Why its harmful:
It implies growth is bad. It isnt. Growth is what allows us to improve peoples lives. It means more food for the hungry, more medicine for the sick, more air conditioning between the tropics, more yatchs to the rich. If we want those that live in this planet to thrive we need to find way

131 likes 25 responses