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Zubrin argues on page 303 of his softback edition "Case for Mars", that exponential growth won't destroy the environment and take up a finite amount of resources. He then point's out the reason why such malthusian predictions have come up short which are correct. However, unless you want to live in a world where everybody is first locked into position like a quantum dot, just an earth of humans all lined up in standing position with a tube going up there wahzhoo feeding them entertainment and food, and then secondly, see those people shrunk down to some calculated ideal height to maximize the amount of people that can theoretically be lined up and living on the earth at one time, and then thirdly, to start up the whole process again underground and then start building up stories and stories of such rows of people till the earth is one big ball of 'rows of ideal sized humans' in the worst example the orwellian nightmare, then I think exponential growth can not only sap the resources of the earth, but the solar system as well. As Eric Drexler pointed out in his book, "Engines of Creation, exponential growth can also swamp a growing resource base.
Nope, you have to institute some growth standards, or growth standards will insitute itself in the form or wars, and/or societal collapse.
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Of course exponential growth is only an approximation over a short period of time. I would like to see some data about how the growth rate varied over time.
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