Could Economic Growth Kill Us?
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Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Now that the U.S. presidentialelection is over, attention has turned to the challenge ofkeeping the world’s largest economy growing. The underlyingassumption is that growth is always the proper goal.
What if that assumption were wrong? Given our currenteconomic malaise, and the obvious needs of the poor indeveloping nations, growth may be the only sensible aim in theshort term. But what if, in the very long term, economic growthhad some natural limit, beyond which it actually becamedetrimental to the survival of the human race?