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Re:MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Sho... by inkblotuniverse on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:09PM (#27836262)
Technological improvement is growth. That isn't intrinsically tied to increasing resource utilisation.
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Re:MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Sho... by aaron-santos on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:28PM (#27836547)
It isn't entirely separate either. Often increases in efficiency direct increases in consumption. This observation was made by the English economist William Stanley Jevons and is known as Jevons paradox[1]. More recently, the economists Daniel Khazzoom, Leonard Brookes, and others have analyzed this relationship[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

[2] http://www.iaee.org/en/publications/ejarticle.aspx?id=1091

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