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Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations And People Always Die, And Life Gets Faster | Con... - 0 views

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  • you have to innovate faster and faster in order to avoid the collapse
  • The system will collapse, because eventually you would have to be making a major innovation, like you know, IT every six months. Well, that's completely crazy.
  • There's a theorem you can prove that says that if you demand continuous open growth, you have to have continuous cycles of innovation. Well, that's what people believe, and it's the way people have suggested that’s how you get out of the Malthusian paradox. This all agrees within itself but there is a huge catch.
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  • We have open-ended growth, increase in pace of life, and the threat of collapse because of the singularity. But there's a big catch about this innovation. Theory says, sure, you can get out of collapse by innovating, but you have to innovate faster and faster.
  • It's great on the one hand that you have this open ended growth. But if you kept going, of course, it doesn't make any sense. Eventually, you run out of resources anyway, but you would collapse
  • One of the bad things about open-ended growth, growing faster than exponentially, is that open-ended growth eventually leads to collapse. It leads to collapse mathematically because of something called finite times singularity.
Benno Hansen

Heat, Drought Linked to Violence Worldwide - weather.com - 1 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 03 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Worldwide, shifts in climate are strongly linked to human violence, researchers concluded after examining quantitative studies from the past 25 on climate and various forms of violence.
  • A global temperature rise of 2-degrees Celsius could increase the rate of intergroup conflicts, such as civil wars, by more than 50 percent in many parts of the world, the study's statistical analysis found.
  • studies that find that heat waves lead to more violent crime in U.S. cities, for example, indicate that humans are poorly equipped to deal with exposure to hotter temperatures
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  • In agricultural areas, where climate affects the economy, violence may increase because of weather-caused poor economic conditions.
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