The Problem of Growth
Friday, March 21st, 2008Stuart Staniford proposed a “way forward” for humanity in his article Powering Civilization to 2050 . This article proposes an alternative vision: instead of trying create continual, technological stop-gaps to the demands of growth, we must address the problem of growth head on. Infinite growth is impossible in a finite world–a great deal of economic growth may be possible without a growth in resource consumption, but eventually the notion …





