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This article, and some of the comments, seems to suggest that stimulating demand is the solution. It fails however to address if continuously increasing demand
by eschnou 13y ago
This article, and some of the comments, seems to suggest that stimulating demand is the solution. It fails however to address if continuously increasing demand is realistic in a finite world.
Increasing demand and thus supply, requires increasing use of energy, land, raw material, etc. Which is at some point limited by the physical realities of our world.
There is a limit to growth. Have we reached it?
- sillysaurus2 13y agoThere is a limit to growth. Have we reached it? Depends. Growth of what? There are aspects of life I see as having unlimited growth. Evolution has a way of crashing through barriers and trampling anything that stands in its way. If humans somehow exhaust a resource, we'll evolve a new one, as we always have. Perhaps painfully, but it'll happen.