Economic growth is over, The world economy is already too big to ever become sustainable - the maximum size of a sustainable world economy is probably about half its current size. I’m talking about the real economy, of course, where real raw materials are extracted and refined, real products made, transported and used, real services provided, real energy harvested and used.
This is utterly incompatible with Capitalism, of course. Any type of economy driven by private property and market forces must either grow or collapse. Since any further growth is unsustainable, the Capitalist economy becomes a zero sum game in which one person’s gain is another person’s loss,, which in turn is the source for future conflicts over land and resources. If something is unsustainable, we eventually won’t be able to sustain it anymore, and then things get really ugly.
The easiest way out of this dilemma would be an ecosocialist world revolution. Yeah,, right. We’re probably fucked. Our current political systems are so utterly devoted to sustaining private property and finding merket “solutions” that any attempt to fundamentally change the way we humans live on this planet will be stopped at all cost, even if it costs us complex civilisation as a whole.
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the-elf-has-had-enough posted this "Can those who advocate hitting the brakes on economic growth get their message across before it's too late?"
