"There are physical limits to continuous economic expansion – a fact that most economists do not seem to understand."
One of those limits is time. Failing to respect this has allowed people to think that human ingenuity can eventually come up with solutions to almost anything. And probably it can. But we don't have "eventually" to work with. And it is just not equally true that human ingenuity can come up with solutions to almost anything within a year or two.
There really is not time to invent and deploy new tech. We need to act fast enough that we have what we have. And, given that, we need to scale back. We're just in collective denial.
Some say we can't change society fast enough. But we have counterexamples, the most recent of which was covid. Almost overnight, we changed how society's core functions and cash flow worked. We did it because we knew we had no choice.
The reason we aren't changing for Climate Change is not that we can't, it's that we think we have some other choice or we think we have more time. We don't. We're just in denial.
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