finite resources on earth can lead to meagar resources which stop infinite growth is what I took from that paper.
So we'd have to get resources from elsewhere like asteroid mining or space colonization.
So we'd have to get resources from elsewhere like asteroid mining or space colonization.
The BBC asked a bad question and got an obvious answer. (Maybe the badness and obviousness aren't apparent up front if you don't have a physical science background.)
Asking if fixed-percentage economic growth can continue forever is rather like asking if Moore's Law can continue forever. No, neither can continue forever. That doesn't mean that things get bad after the growth phase. Somehow both optimists and pessimists conflate "the end of growth" with "the end of prosperity." That's ridiculous, IMO. The median citizen is much better off in low-economic-growth (and negative population growth) Japan than in rapidly growing Bangladesh.