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Limits to growth
Everything natural stops growing at some point–except for cancer. We seem to think, though, that the economy can grow forever. We celebrate growth year after year. Isn’t this a little strange?
There are reasons to think we can’t continue to grow forever. There are reasons to believe we wouldn’t want to anyway.
If you’d like to read about why we can’t, read this and this.
If you’d like to read about why we shouldn’t, read this.