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> Current growth would hit a wall informed by our understanding of physics somewhere very roughly in the thousands-of-years-range.

A thousand years is a very optimistic estimate I would say. World3 (which is still on track of its predictions) predicts before 2050, which seems realistic considering the current context.



Very roughly, then. It’s vaguely on the scale of human or humanity. It’s a pretty big deal it’s not like a geological or planetary time scale.




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