Growth-based economies have to stop. We simply cannot sustain them.
It’s economic heresy, but the fact is we’re already consuming our finite resources faster than they’re being replaced – yet growth requires us to consume it ever more quickly. “It has taken all of human history for the economy to reach its current size. On current form it will take just two decades to double.” We have to find another way.
If you haven’t read this October issue of New Scientist, you should, beginning at page 40. (Most can be read online.) Click the graph below for full-size version.
Sometimes, growth is also called cancer.