In Just 60 Years, Neoliberal Capitalism Has Nearly Broken Planet Earth

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34. Because we use our minds

The human imagination is basically limitless. That's how we think. It's not just the bad stuff, like capitalism, or greed, or population, or whatever. It's all the stuff you like too. Medical science, human rights, pick whatever you want. We don't want limits on these things. We don't want them being finite. There should be no limit to human progress.

That's all part of the infinite growth in a finite system. Human progress either has no limit, or it does. Both aren't going to be true. If human progress has no limit, then infinite growth seems like it could be a thing. If human progress does have a limit, who gets to tell who what they can or cannot do?

Because we can't figure out the answer to that 2nd question, we just go with everyone can have everything. Which will always clash with the physical limits of the planet, in one way or another, but we can't answer that 2nd question, so we do everything in our power to get around those limits.