ENGB52H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Isaac Asimov
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Week 12: what have we done the good earth is dying by isaac asimov. Humans always find a way to make stories out of anything. Let us accept, then, the dream that technology is infinitely capable and proceed from there we might argue, then, that the earth can support, as a maximum, a mass of mankind equal to the present mass of all animal life. At that point, the number of human beings on the earth would be forty million, million, or over eleven thousand times the present number . If mankind adds to the heat on earth by burning coal, the additional energy must also be radiated out to space; and to accomplish this the earth"s average temperature must rise slightly . Far from making strides to keep up with the population increase, technology is falling visibly behind how can we reach out limit of energy expenditure when new.
