“It is our predicament that we live in a finite world, and yet we behave as if it were infinite. Steady exponential material growth with no limits on resource consumption and population is the dominant conceptual model used by today’s decision makers. This is an approximation of reality that is no longer accurate and [has] started to break down.” —Global systems analyst Rodrigo Castro and colleagues, paper presented at a scientific modeling conference, 2014
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