Growth is not Prosperity

There are several concepts in the article sited below. Here’s one but also the sheer unsustainability of continued consumption growth is discussed.

"The odds are you’ll be in reasonable shape until about six months before you die at which point you’ll need about the same care as a baby,” he says. “So raising a baby to look after an old person makes no sense.”

Sandra Kanck, a former Democrats senator and national secretary of Sustainable Population Australia, agrees. “The cost of raising a child is way more than the cost of putting someone in aged care,” she says, adding that having more children puts more pressure on the planet.

“So the resources we think are available to us are not available to our children,” she says. “It’s contributing to climate change and creating greater instability.”

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The problem with articles like this, they disregard any future advancements in technology, energy, medicine, etc that drastically change the equation. They act like the world is static.

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