Should I reminder you what unlimited growth means and how it ends up in biology? Society/technology is no exception.

No need for unlimited growth, just normal sustainable progress like the one that allows you and me to communicate here after centuries of technological progress.

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PatronBernard 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ah yes, sustainable progress, like we're doing now?

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vrganj 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The "normal sustainable progress" has already pushed us to the brink of extinction. AI is rapidly accelerating our resource use, with nothing good to show for it.

	▲	lxgr 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How exactly are we "on the brink of extinction"? ("We" as in humans; many other species are obviously not as lucky.) We are probably on the brink of very bad consequences for a signification fraction of all humans (up to and including all of them, to some extent), which is a huge problem that needs to be addressed. But what do you gain by incorrectly labeling that as "extinction"? Because you do definitely lose credibility for it, similarly to everybody using hyperbolic language such as "boiling the oceans" etc.