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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: Life After Growth - Dr. Mark Nelson, Biosphere 2
Description: Some species are boom and bust - but for others, life after growth is a more steady affair. What will it be for humans?
If the past informs the future, a tragic tomorrow can seem inevitable: famine, war, disease, and destruction threaten to unfold at the end of every path. Escaping the past has meant maintaining physical and economic growth, but this leads to another set of worries: Does all this expansion doom humans to the boom and bust fate that awaits all exponential creatures? It might. But what if an endless cycle between growth and death i...