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There have to be limits to growth, but we won’t know where they are except in retrospect. We also may never hit them due to fertility decline which occurs in all wealthy societies. Fertility decline plus efficiency increase could cause consumption of some resources to fall.

Space migration doesn’t change the equation much on Earth unless you start mining and manufacturing off world and importing product, and that is pretty far off.



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