{"id":107118,"date":"2020-05-15T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/thermodynamic-limits-to-economic-growth-on-earth-can-space-save-us"},"modified":"2020-05-15T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T19:23:09","slug":"thermodynamic-limits-to-economic-growth-on-earth-can-space-save-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/thermodynamic-limits-to-economic-growth-on-earth-can-space-save-us","title":{"rendered":"Thermodynamic limits to economic growth on Earth \u2014 Can space save us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thermodynamic-limits-to-economic-growth-on-earth-can-space-save-us3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This new paper argues that continued economic growth on Earth will hit a thermodynamic limit within the third millenium, if economic activities and energy consumption cannot be decoupled. The maximum size would be up to 7000 times the current one. An in-space economy would offer a way out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnergy Limits to the Gross Domestic Product on Earth\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2005.05244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2005.05244\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2005.05244<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Image: Wikipedia \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sky_mile_tower.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sky_mile_tower.jpg\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sky_mile_tower.jpg<\/a><\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new paper argues that continued economic growth on Earth will hit a thermodynamic limit within the third millenium, if economic activities and energy consumption cannot be decoupled. The maximum size would be up to 7000 times the current one. An in-space economy would offer a way out. \u201cEnergy Limits to the Gross Domestic Product [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}