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How about industrie, craftsmanship and farming? Can they “grow” over a certain period of time while the required resources doesn’t?
by aziaziazi 3y ago
How about industrie, craftsmanship and farming? Can they “grow” over a certain period of time while the required resources doesn’t?
- less_less 3y agoYes, of course. The quantity and quality of the output can certainly grow for a given resource input -- obviously with physical limits but we haven't generally reached those. It's possible to breed higher-yielding crops, design more efficient industrial processes, to craft with less waste, etc, and these have all been vastly improved over the past few centuries. The problem is that these industries have also been growing by increasing resource consumption along with output, to a level that isn't sustainable (even without more growth) beyond this century or so.