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Is there any evolutionary advantages to be happy ad infinitum/nauseam? Not really. If we were blissful, serene, tranquil, peaceful, happy at all times there wouldn't be any incenti…

Raising awareness. :)

You're not even able to moderate yourself to "could" be astounding, it WILL be astounding, categorically? Is there anything pointing toward such being able to reach fruition? Not r…

I get it. Still annoying that I'm reduced to a simple "Malthusian" for espousing that resource depletion is a problem that's insurmountably difficult to "solve".

Except, the population in the first world will be hit as well. Do you think 315 million Americans makes the USA not overpopulated?

Oh, societies less complex than the status quo haven't collapsed before? I see. We're more people than ever, far more intricate/complex/high level than ever, and the key resources …

I think it's interesting to discuss it here, the zenith of technocopian optimism and futurism. There's a host of intelligent people frequenting Hacker News, but few have any idea w…

There is no God, remember? Also, are you trying to be clever, offensive or something else entirely by contributing with silly one-liners?

Whether it stops at 8 or 9 billion doesn't really make an impact until 2150 at best. IF we had the resources to keep everything puffing till then. We don't. :)

The biggest problem is resource depletion and overpopulation. Overpopulation will be "fixed" through starvation and death. Resource depletion will leave the current young and futur…

Nobody has even come close at finding anything as useful as hydrocarbons. I bid you good luck. If he's < 5 he won't even have the chance as we're past the net energy peak from oil.…

Another related book is "What is sustainable": http://www.amazon.com/What-Sustainable-Remembering-Our-Home/...

Yes, it's the most peaceful in absolute numbers. It's also the shittiest in absolute numbers. Subsidized by cheap, surplus energy, courtesy of ancient plant and dino matter.

Don't have kids. They will have far shittier lives, not to mention shorter, than yours, thanks to the end of cheap fossil fuels. They're also a hundred thousand dollar expense. Do …

Club of Rome tried to warn, but since we wanted growth, collapse is what "we" "deserve". Thanks former generations for not heeding the rational advice.

Batteries can't be an alternative because: 1) They need fossil fuels and finite minerals/metals to be manufactured and transported 2) The EROEI is way less The earth had plenty of …

No, because even if we got more of those (and fossil fuels, the most crucial component of our "prosperous" Western societies aren't available from the skies) we wouldn't solve the …

Never is the most realistic deadline.

Yeah, no. Elon Musk should instead focus on fixing the Peaks that will make the Almighty Industrial Revolution look like a blip on the easel of the history of history. Space travel…

Yeah, because, why would you comment this instead of some Elon Musk circlejerk about going to Mars. Like that is ever happening.

You're only sorry your comment was noticed and attacked.

Let's take the recent Driverless car news item, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5107615. "This will change everything". Replacing hundreds of millions of cars with these new on…