So this physics professor has wrote some stuff about sustainability of economic growth under capitalism. He's a liberal boomer but don't write this off he has some good points. Besides he raises chickens in his free time though he should write in his blog more
tldr: economic growth requires more energy production no kind of energy production or transmission is 100% efficient, there is always waste heat economic growth means more energy produced and more waste heat assuming that: 1. capitalism doesn't shit itself 2. climate change does not exist (just for the sake of argument) 3. we can produce energy forever without running out of resources 4. the world economy grows at a modest 2.3% per year indefinitely result: in 400 years the surface temperature of the earth will be 100 C due to waste heat from energy production (not from the sun, not from global warming, just from human economic activity) and just for fun at 2.3% growth rate, human energy production would exceed the energy output of the sun in 1400 years resulting in the earths surface being hotter than the suns surface therefore indefinite growth is not possible even if we ignore all the other problems we face today
Given the Marx says growth is necessary under capitalism, the obvious conclusion is that capitalism must end. Too bad he's a liberal who is afraid of saying socialism, instead he advocates for "steady-state economy". How does leftypol deal with the question of growth. David Harvey says some places in the world still require growth while others need degrowth. A world revolution must take these topics into account.
Another related issue is what kind of energy generation method is adopted. For an exponentially growing economy I can only see nuclear (fission) as an option since it is more energy dense than fossil fuels, solar, and wind. I don't think capitalism can grow for much longer without wide spread use of nuclear power. Ironically this makes anti-nuclear hippies /ourguys/. A socialist world that has come to terms with the limits of growth can better plan energy use and solar+wind with some nuclear might be enough. For the sake of argument assume nuclear fusion remains a meme and that no physics defying method of pumping heat away form the earth is discovered (it's probably impossible).
Dominic Mitchell
I think I'll start riling up the disadvantaged to steal his chickens for me. Bwahahahaaa.
Brandon Adams
Hilarious.
Sebastian Ross
wasn't bobby fischer jewish?
Gavin Hall
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Thomas Gutierrez
How's the Assad assassination going? What's taking so long?
Nathaniel Reed
I think you know his mother was jewish, rabbi. Being only partly jewish is why he accomplished something other than collecting interest or welfare.
Isaiah Parker
I don't know, ask Trump.
Sebastian Rodriguez
Lenin never said that. Want an actual Quote? Lavr Kornilov was a general in the White Army, and committed terrorist atrocities to try and reestablish the capitalist order, he said "We must save Russia …. even if we have to set fire to half the country and shed the blood of 3/4ths of all russians" I think the author of that fraudulent quote was inspired by this.
Grayson Jackson
Stop smoking weed and stuffing your ass with your mom's dildos.
Chase Thompson
5 cointelpro posts and 2 suckers who took the bait. mods fucking where
Thomas Morris
He said Assad's doing great and so is his wife who is not under investigation for being a jew.
Jose Ortiz
Generals in Venezuela are probably thinking the same thing.
Caleb Johnson
This looks like a good way convince liberals to be more anti capitalist. Should make it into info graphic.
Jonathan Morales
The argument depends on what economic growth is. If we think of growth in terms of physical output, producing twice as much of everything means the economy has doubled in size, physically speaking. But is economic growth really measured like that? If you have a measurement of value that does tell you that the economy's size has doubled in size in that case, that doesn't yet prove that this physical way is the only way an economy can grow by that measure you use.
Adrian Diaz
assad's wife is significantly hotter than trumps.
Owen Phillips
"Economy" is a spook, it doesn't truly represent physical objects or "value".
Alexander Torres
So he's an ML and doesn't realize it?
John Peterson
I though MLs were all about growth and meeting quotas
Landon Butler
I'm seriously struggling to understand what this is even supposed to mean Not even posadas could conceive of this glory
Luis Thomas
I'm waiting for thermodynamics to be accused of being a communist plot to destroy the free market with arbitrary limitations.