That simple fact sounds like a 'made up not-fact' ? You can invent a tractor, make food cheaper. you can also add more people, and make food more valuable. Both of these have been happening simultaneously. The tractor improvements were winning, but not any more. Economic growth and population growth are separate. They are often confused by politicians, real estate agents and fools. First, you will realize that the value of fresh air and clean water is more than the value of a new TV. Then, you will realize that they aren't mutually exclusive. Technology doesn't need exponential population growth in order to flourish and improve. Population growth is an unnecessary by-product. First, at least try and live sustainably in the desert or Antarctica before moving to mars.

A useful DotNet error handling structure that you could have explained to him in five minutes. I dislike when 'knowledge of particular language syntax' is confused with 'programming ability'. It's like if Einstein asked you what some english word meant, so you assume he is an idiot. I wonder who is designing the GUI, and defining the functionality of your application.. eg all the stuff that can be done before you start typing code... eg 90% of the software design.

We are in the middle of a mass extinction event, worse than any on fossil record. If you live in a town or a city, you may be oblivious to that... Because you have lots of people, pigeons, domestic-dogs and cockroaches. Gross human population increase is 2 million per week.. Your fantastical idea that economic growth is the only solution to population growth is not so much simplistic as ridiculous. A nuclear powered rocket ship that goes to mars and digs up copper to make plasma televisions. I will put that on my list of solutions, underneath 'time-machine', and 'frozen seed-bank'.

Wow, It's a planet just like our beautiful Earth.. Without the oceans, rainforests and life. What a great step forward. We lack the technology to live comfortably somewhere easy; like a desert or under the ocean. We are wiping out life. due to simple fundamental problems such as human population growth. Yet, the geniuses living in a box somewhere in 1950s NASA, think your future and mankinds' destiny is on a lifeless red hell-planet. Perhaps there will be a circa-eighties city there, and a woman with three breasts. I am ashamed of you all. yes it is a planet, but it is not earth. For many obvious reasons. Too many movies, not enough exercise, outside, in the fresh air.