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I never understood this line of thought. Economic growth is not a growth of raw material consumption. There has been some correlation but you could imagine a fo
by mijamo 5y ago
I never understood this line of thought. Economic growth is not a growth of raw material consumption. There has been some correlation but you could imagine a forever growing GDP with shrinking raw material usage without any major problem as long as there is technological or organisational progress.
- tsimionescu 5y agoYou can imagine it, but it doesn't track with reality. Economic growth has been synonymous with fast fashion, planned obsolescence, new cars every few years, a new phone every year, more and more meat in our diets, cheap plastic crap and so on - conspicuous consumption.