Growth itself is very ambiguous. To start with, there will always be a growing number of events that (relatively to our species evolution, until its disappeara

Growth itself is very ambiguous. To start with, there will always be a growing number of events that (relatively to our species evolution, until its disappearance) will be in the past. Not necessarily more events with artifacts to which we can have access to though. It’s not like "consumption" is an act of annihilation of anything, this is all transformations. At least as far as energy-mass equilibrium goes. In a sense, we can literally lose information, as it will never be possible to access it again, be it a star (the stellar body) existence that is out of observable, a species which disappeared million years ago that has let no trace of its passage on earth, or our beloved ones whose loving memory won’t last much centuries.