Cheap energy will at least double global growth to 6% a year, tripling the world economy by 2042.

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  A highly dynamic economy that cheaply mass-produces robots may increase rather than decrease the risk of Malthusian resource dilemmas.

  Handmer expects cheap energy to double global growth and triple the world economy by 2042. Cowen warns that an economy which cheaply mass-produces robots may raise rather than lower the risk of Malthusian resource dilemmas. Faster growth is the premise of both, and they disagree about whether abundance is the escape from scarcity or the thing that runs into it.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.

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