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re: Aliens may have economic issues, too
gbaikie — (archived)

"The problem is that this kind of growth may not be possible, and they look at Earth as an example. For any expansion to be sustainable, the growth in resource consumption cannot exceed the growth in resource production. And since Earth's resources are finite, and it has a finite mass and receives solar radiation at a constant rate, human civilization cannot sustain an indefinite, exponential growth."

Earth resources may be finite but infinite is a big number.
But Earth lack of infinite resource is not a problem we need to concerned about in terms of the next 100 year or 1000 years.
If not having infinite resources on Earth is or was a problem, we could expand into space, where as far the humans goes the resources are infinite in terms of the next few million or billions of years.

Now, Earth itself may be finite in terms of it's resource, but if add in a modesty intelligent creature so to add intelligence as a resource, it's possible that Earth in that sense has infinite resources.

So, Earth could have infinite resources, if you include the Sol solar system you would more have much more resources- there may not be enough time in this universe to get to the point of approaching a shortage.

So, it could the complete opposite, aliens aren't here because they have infinite resources.

And aliens might have chosen not to leave their planet?

Or Aliens might be similar to earthlings- what is the reason for us to remain on Earth. Maybe they also have a NASA, and maybe they also have "gun control laws" in terms of any kind of vehicles which could go into space.

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