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Infinite growth in a finite system

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 30, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories economicsTags Kenneth Boulding

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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