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bkotoday at 3:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

Or we could... hear me out... build more power plants. The de-growth stuff is pretty evil when you take it to it's logical conclusion of population control.


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jszymborskitoday at 3:58 PM

There's a bit of a difference between population control and reaching a sustainable equilibrium. One can also argue the death of all life on earth is a pretty evil logical conclusion of infinite growth on a finite planet.

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xgulfietoday at 3:59 PM

Do not confuse curiosity and caring for extremism.

If someone said they pick up trash on the side of the road to help the environment you wouldn't say the logical conclusion of their ideology would be that they become the unabomber