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Well, growth has some advantages: more people means more minds, more ideas, and improved technologies. There's 20 times as many people on Earth now as a thousand years ago, but our lives are more comfortable. Sustainability is the key word that we want to focus on; if we expand into the Solar System before figuring out how to not consume net resources, we could use up the whole system and then really be stuck.

I'll get behind that argument once 100% of our population is educated and living comfortably, contributing to arts and science. And yes, living sustainably too, even if I suspect this particular goal will be easier to reach than the others.

I suppose there's always the argument for survivability. The greater the number of humans and the more distributed we are, the greater chance we (that is, humanity in general) has at surviving.

Read Asimov's Robot Series. You'll love it.

Growth is good for amazon.