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Feb 3, 2022

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Sorry, no, it doesn't. What we are witnessing right now in the form of energy crisis, inflation, shortages is a clear sign of limits to growth with diminishing returns both in energy and raw materials, and thus just the beginning. This energy crunch, turning chronic as we speak, will make the transitions required harder and harder to achieve. We need copper, aluminum, fertilizers, fuels etc. right now to maintain this current level of complexity - which is ever harder to achieve. Hence the problems we see. Any additional demand will be harder and harder to provide, while ore grades fall further along with the current fossil infrastructure's capability to provide the exponential increase required to their production. I believe we have arrived at an inflection point, and not for the better.

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