Some of the stuff I’ve read about capitalism says that it MUST continue to expand forever – the only other option is collapse
ie, there is no steady-state end game in a capitalistic system
Another interesting idea (which George Ure at http://www.urbansurvival.com talks about fairly often) is how a culture grows in a petri dish – the culture will grow at whatever its growth rate is UNTIL it hits the edge of the petri dish (runs out of resources) – George believes that humans are very near the edge of the dish at this point
Tying these two ideas together says that we need some amount of growth but we have limitted resources so we might choose to limit the rate of growth
How’s that for a long-winded way of saying, 2% growth is much better than 10% growth
