As Ed liked to say (while tossing his empty beer cans out the jeep window): "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell"Jorts wrote: ↑Sun May 02, 2021 3:33 pmThere are just too many humans and we all want comfortable, meaningful lives requiring more stuff. Only economists and idiots think exponential growth is good in a finite world. ::mini fatalist rant over::supranihilest wrote: ↑Sun May 02, 2021 3:23 pmSuch philosophy also allows the masses to benefit from a finite resource (in this case, land) vs all or most of the benefits going to the few. I am a proponent of those ideals.
And oof, does the correlation of those two graphs sting.