I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.
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A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.
It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.
Sometimes, we use the term 'growth' as a number and sometimes as an abstraction, but the underlying implication is always that, if the country grows at a certain rate, at the end there will be a pot of gold for everyone.
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.