The Suicidal Insanity of Non-Stop Growth
The planet offers everything we need to survive and thrive, but not if we continue to wastefully exploit it with non-stop growth.
Our current economic system is obsessed with constant growth; everything must keep expanding — except for the natural systems on which our health and survival depend.
- Growing economies
- Growing industry
- Growing cities
- Growing population
- Growing pollution
The human population has been multiplying rapidly, especially since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Population growth:
- 1800-1927: doubled from one to two billion
- 1974: doubled again
- present day: more than eight billion
Our appetite for resources, especially in the wasteful West, has grown exponentially — not to meet human “needs,” but to perpetuate a system that puts profits above everything.
Author's summary: Non-stop growth threatens the planet's survival.