Limits to growth

The earth is in one way a closed in biosphere, not that different from the biospheres in a bottle that you create in science class. Unless we get hit by a huge meteor or we refine the space mining as depicted in the 1981 movie Outland where mining is done on a Jupiter moon “sometime in the 21th century”, we are pretty much stuck with the resources that we have here on earth.

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Normalicy bias!

Normalicy bias, or normality bias, depending on where in the world you speak english, is the congnitive bias that leads people to minimize warnings, threats or issues. We tend to prepare inadequately for failiure, like storms, stock market crashes or bicycle drivetrain wear.

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