>like growing GDP at 1-2% a year, within some few thousand years you've grown bigger than all the resources Increased GDP does not require consuming more resou

>like growing GDP at 1-2% a year, within some few thousand years you've grown bigger than all the resources Increased GDP does not require consuming more resources. Using them more efficiently adds significantly to GDP, so this argument doesn't provide a rationale to claim infinite GDP growth is impossible. A good example is many advanced economies have increased per capita GDP significantly while lowering per capita energy consumption at the same time (and lowering many other per capita material consumption areas).