Super-linear scaling and collapse

[phantom power]

5. there's creativity, and then there's wisdom

I think questions having to do with "whether we ought to do things, even if we could" is more about wisdom than creativity. Buddy of mine once said, "80% of wisdom is fatigue." We've been living in a world with cheap energy. It's like being 25 years old. But middle age is coming.

Also, I have some hope that we might find a way to re-invent our concept of economic growth to be more aligned with "growth in variety and creativity." The biosphere has been in resource equilibrium for a long long time. It doesn't grow in the way we currently think of growing our economy -- by occupying more and more resources. The biosphere's notion of 'accumulating capital' is more about increasing variety, and increasing niches.

So, to hear somebody saying that their research suggests that creativity can grow faster than basic infrastructure tells me that maybe there's hope for a re-invented notion of growth after all.