I finished reading Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet by Thomas Murphy. It's powerful. He argues decisively that growth (including economic growth) will stop soon compared to the length of time since the beginning of agriculture. All it takes is one critical resource to limit growth. Even in the wildly optimistic scenarios where energy is limitless, eventually temperature from our own energy use will limit growth. Space exploration will only delay the end of growth, and will cause its own problems. I found the arguments to be convincing.

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m

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