"There is no self deception sillier than techno-scientific optimism, as expressed as follows: 'Up til now science has always found a solution, and it will in the future too'. By the same logic, someone for whom the doctors has known how to cure their illnesses, arrives at the conclusion that they are immortal. In the same way it's an invalid extrapolation."
Wolfgang Harich, a degrowth communist from the GDR, in 1978.
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