Can We Survive Endless Exponential Growth?

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“While exponential growth is a remarkable manifestation of our extraordinary accomplishments as a species,” says Geoffrey West in Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies, “built into it are the potential seeds of our demise and the portent of big troubles just around the next corner.”