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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (129668)	1/29/2010 4:12:40 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542139

And we can't desperately push for an economy that has to have more and more growth I don't really think we're doing that to any great extent, certainly it isn't the central political focus, except perhaps during recessions when everyone is pushing their own means to get out of it (meaning to resume growth) we live in a fixed orb with limited resources to support an ever growing population... Resources aren't really fixed. Oh sure there is only so much material and energy in/on the Earth or in the universe for that matter and we can't get beyond (or realistically to) 100% efficiency; there is some hard ultimate limit. But the distance from us to that limit is vastly greater than the difference of the cavemen to us. Short of that ultimate limit there are temporary limits, but essentially resource grow, they aren't limited. Also we don't have "an ever growing population". Looking at fertility trends the population will probably peak this century, and then perhaps go down. There is a decent chance that it will never reach 10 billion, and its unlikely to reach 15. It's not always the things you own that make you, or your society, happy. That much I can agree with.