We must achieve a steady-state economic
system
A steady-state economic system is necessary
because neither population growth nor economic growth can
continue indefinitely on a finite earth. No one can maintain
that exponential industrial growth is sustainable in the
long run except by refusing to look more than a short
distance into the future.
Of course, it is necessary
to distinguish between industrial growth, and growth of
culture and knowledge, which can and should continue to
grow. Qualitative improvements in human society are possible
and desirable, but resource-using and pollution-producing
industrial growth is reaching its limits, both because of
ecological constraints and because of the exhaustion of
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Scientists Say Humanity Now at ‘Dawn of What Must Be a Transformative Decade’
Exploring this “interwined planet of people and nature.”
By Jon Queally,
A new analysis examining humanity’s central role in disrupting the support systems of the natural world argues that far-reaching action this decade including a halt to vast inequalities and the irresponsible deployment of advanced technologies is vital if a more vibrant and sustainable future is to be achieved.