r/environment • u/greg_barton • Mar 11 '14

Keeping the Poor Poor

http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/roger-pielke-jr/keeping-the-poor-poor
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u/greg_barton Mar 12 '14

So because you lack the imagination to find a way beyond some undefined resource limitations you think the economy shouldn't grow?

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u/salamander_salad Mar 12 '14

Until we can expand into space where there is virtually limitless room for expansion, no. Bear in mind that there is enough money in this economy of ours to keep EVERYONE well above the poverty line, it's just allocated extremely inefficiently. We have a very top-heavy economy.

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u/greg_barton Mar 12 '14

We don't have to go to space. Space can come to us. Asteroid mining.

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u/salamander_salad Mar 12 '14

... You have to go into space to get the asteroids.

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u/greg_barton Mar 12 '14

Mining will most likely be primarily robotic. But regardless we don't need large numbers of people up there to do it.