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Wakko
Jun 9, 2002
Faboo!
What does 'enough' mean under an economic system that requires permanent growth of consumption and population?

Edit to actually answer OP's question: nobody really knows if we're running headfirst into a malthusian crises of energy, food or raw material production. So far we've done a pretty good job finding alternative ways to source these things, but unless we start space mining, we're going to hit a wall, sometime this century probs.

Wakko fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Feb 10, 2017

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