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I think that's a really interesting and good point - the types of resources and what their limitations are.

While there are some physically limited resources such as oil, agricultural land, etc., for which we do need to be careful - there are other resources like electricity that we could have in overabundance (e.g. large nuclear+hydro installations and other supporting generation methods).
Those could have fascinating effects on other resources, such as making steel production with hydrogen more viable, lowering costs for recycling, synthetic fuels, carbon capture for concrete production, etc.

I think the real issue is doing it fast enough. We are already seeing major effects of climate change on the horizon, some have already arrived.
For now, any useful form of reduction of emissions is something we need, and once things stabilize we can think about expanding out again.

With enough money I'm sure we could pull off both, though, but... That's a bit dreamy.

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