"Like it or not, our system (and theirs) is built on growth. OK, growth must be channeled to preserve our world, but the clock cannot be turned back. Small is no longer where it's at."

Logically, since we cannot endure or even consider a stop or even limits to that growth, eventually it always leads to a dead end obliteration. And the 'growth' you refer to is 'exponential'.

Year 1 total = year 0 total + x% of year 0 total
Year 2 total = year 1 total + x% of year 1 total

now what happens is that although the x% remains the same number in each year, when you compare it back to year 0 , the % of the year 0 expressed as a number climbs, slowly at first, then rapidly. If you have a desktop calculator, you can play with this yourself until you become convinced.


If you have a scum that doubles its area on a pond every day, it will take X days to fully cover that pond - size irrelevant.

How many days will it take to cover half of the pond?

X-1.

that's the power of uncontrolled exponential growth.

No matter how small the % growth, eventually you just run out, and will always fill the entire space - and if you have a few billion years of 'future', the % need only be miniscule.

For us to survive on earth, we only have 2 mutually exclusive options

1) Zero % growth.

2) population culling.

The 'culling' will make space for future obsession with growth, and will either be 'Natural' or 'deliberately man induced'.

The equation is also applicable to 'resources' needed - of any and all type.