Tom Ritchford
1 min readMay 26, 2021

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"If I just list the good things, and ignore all the bad things, then the world is great!"

We note you don't mention the actual issues - resource consumption, the climate disaster, pollution everywhere.

The last two hundred and fifty years have been non-stop exponential growth of pollution, exponential growth of resource consumption, and exponentially increasing loss of wilderness.

Sustained exponential growth in resource consumption and waste are both mathematically impossible in a finite world.

In my lifetime alone, we've killed more than half of the wild mammals; more than half the flying insects; a lot more than half of the aquatic mammals, and indeed, more than half of all the aquatic creatures bigger than my two fists put together.

How long can we go on killing half the natural world in one man's lifetime?

The section "We're not running out of fuel" is particularly :-o. Yes, the problem is that we aren't running out of coal, oil and gas, and in fact we're burning them as if there is no tomorrow.

We have gotten to this point by wildly polluting the planet and expending resources as if there were no tomorrow.

"Living is easy with eyes closed." No claps. You live in a fantasy world.

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