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Posted Mon Mar 24 2008: from Jeff Vail, via The Oil Drum:
The Problem of Growth http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1206395851
"This has been a whirlwind tour of the structural bias in hierarchy toward growth, but it has also, by necessity, been a superficial analysis. Books, entire libraries, could be filled with the analysis of this topic. But despite the scope of this topic, it is remarkable that such a simple concept underlies the necessity of growth: within hierarchy, surplus production equates to power, requiring competing entities across all scales to produce ever more surplus—to grow—in order to compete, survive, and prosper. This has, quite literally, Earth shaking ramifications. We live on a finite planet, and it seems likely that we are nearing the limits of the Earth’s ability to support ongoing growth...."
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