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Comment by lanfeust6

6 hours ago

Innovation is such that efficiency increase requires fewer resources and land. Population growth is stagnating and will peak in less than 100 years.

Neo-Malthusianism is as bunk as Malthusianism was

> Innovation is such that efficiency increase requires fewer resources and land.

...to produce the same output. Growth requires greater output though.

Just look at the timeline of energy consumption [0]. Either you're wrong and innovation requires more resources, or you're right and there's no direct relation between innovation and overall resource usage.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption