Reply #33: Resources are limited and so there is a "carrying capacity" [View All]

[bhikkhu]

That is the reality of our physical world. What that capacity is can be argued, but a belief in the limitless ability of science to produce limitless energy and goods for a limitless population is as irresponsible as numerous previous belief systems of numerous previous collapsed cultures...

I don't mean to rant or condescend, but I have lived on this planet long enough to realize that "rising tides" do not lift all ships, that the "developed world" is not leading the "developing world" to any level of stable prosperity, that there are more hungry and thirsty and sick people on this planet every year not because we are mean or greedy, but because resources are limited and populations keep expanding. It is not even economics, it is the reality of a small planet.