I only read the abstract and I still have no clue what these funny duddies are talking about, but I thought the general idea was neat
I only read the abstract and I still have no clue what these funny duddies are talking about, but I thought the general idea was neat
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Also, you know, "using all the energy available at the planetary level" sounds like it could describe a disaster scenario. I wonder to what extent the Kardashev scale caused all these civ-style tech bro brainworms about colonizing space and everyone becoming a star citizen, etc.
Brainworms caused just by the scale existing and defining an ontology for all of human civilization.
they're saying that in modern cities under capitalism, increasing the size of the city results in an increasingly large increase in the amount of resources necessary to keep it going, and thus, an increasingly common number of technological breakthroughs that must occur to support the increases in resource usage. which is dumb af because they're assuming capitalism and growth are just a thing a normal civilization would do, which others have pointed out is very silly.