there's a broader assumption which seems at least equally as dangerous. the pie will keep getting bigger. more resources. more energy. more people. more goods.

there's a broader assumption which seems at least equally as dangerous. the pie will keep getting bigger. more resources. more energy. more people. more goods. more kinds of goods. more movement of goods. thats a direct consequence of your point in that we structurally assume an infinite number of fish, amount of land...and more importantly that the oceans and sky are so vast and unknowable that we throw as much into them as we want without anything ever coming back. maybe we're living out the last aftershock of the end of the age of exploration. and we're so completely unprepared to manage any kind of economic contraction the only response is fear. growth is the seductive poison thats killing us.