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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I don't see human behavior ever planning for the end of growth. We would never elect a politician that promised to deliver 98% of last years GDP, for instance. Growth is in our DNA.
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That is the big problem. People plan/ invest/ elect in time frames of years only. And the current economic model does not function without constant growth. Perpetual growth obviously cannot continue. The free market only encourages paybacks in dollars. It can do nothing to promote long term (100's of years) thinking to save the planet and the human race from world wars and a mass depopulation event. We are doomed. Unless we accept the fact that we need to find a different way.