Word: superoptimists
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...whether it comes then or in, say, 3050 makes a gargantuan difference to people alive today -and to their immediate heirs. The later it is, the more chance there is in. the interim of raising the world's poor toward a decent life. But only a superoptimist would insist that growth can continue forever; that would presuppose that resources are literally infinite. Even if the earth's resources and its capacity to absorb pollution could be extended without limit -or if humanity could colonize other worlds-no one could be certain that that could be done rapidly enough...
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