The math of compound growth leads to absurdities (one human for every square meter of land surface by the year 2750 at our current rate of population increase) and to tragedy.
Source: www.resilience.org
Brilliant essay by Richard Heinberg on the need for planned degrowth. "…while climate change is the mega-crisis of our time, carbon is not our only nemesis. If global warming threatens to undermine civilization, so do topsoil, freshwater, and mineral depletion. These may just take a little longer."
See on Scoop.it – The Great Transition
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