Another very sobering note

On Aug 26, 10:37 am, Enough Already wrote:
http://enough_already.tripod.com/

I like the (above) website.

1)
The idea of idea of endless economic growth violates
the laws of thermo dynamics, it seems to me.
Exactly how is left as an exercise for the reader.

2)
If you think of the capitalist ideal of eternal economic
growth of $x to $y percent per year, then you have
(the idea, at least of) a linear function, expanding by a constant
factor--which mathematically leads to an exponential
growth curve at some point. Eternally expanding economic growth,
in other words, will eventually lead to consumer goods piling up
on the surface of the earth, expanding outward at the speed of light.

We're living an absurd and impossible pipe dream.
We should have tried work with a fixed-size model of some sort,
for both human populations and gross international products.
......but it's probably too late now anyway. So what the hell. :-)