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I agree with this sentiment but wonder… as long as there are humans, is an ever increasing resource consumption and waste production inevitable? Isn’t this unquenchable desire for more intrinsic to humans? Yes, this means we will probably blow the planet it up, but is there any other way?

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With a sufficiently low and stable population, of, say, 50 million, renewable resources, such as water, wood, nitrogen, and fertilizer could be reused indefinitely. But non renewable resources, like oil, natural gas, and metals will eventually become permanently extinct, like oil and natural gas, or will have to be recycled in perpetuity, like metals. This is what awaits us sooner or later anyway.

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