[karlj666]

Permanent growth is by nature exponential (growth by x% per year). This is of course not sustainable in the long run. Eventually we are limited by some finite resource, such as oil, or we run out of consumers to consume the things produced by the growth – one consumer can only consume so much.

Soon the world population is prognosed to level out at 9 billion, and that will set a limit, if not oil does before that, which seems more likely.

And then there is the problem with the National debt that requires growth in order to keep the interest rate low and to be able to pay intrest if the debt. Some countries have around or more than 100% debt to GDP, negative growth, and are now about to default, like Greece and the others in PIIGS.

So some reset or change will occur, voluntarily or not, when the growth levels off or goes negative.

[karlj666]

Humans have a bit warped view on reality, which probably is a result of evolution. A human that has a positive outlook to succeed in a project will probably to better in surviving than one that doesn’t even try, and do better than one that has a completely realistic view on a project. Because once in a while a project doomed to fail will actually succeed to great benefit for that human and the offspring.

Some say that depressed people has the most realistic view, at least on them selves.

Then there is that death-thing. I we were totally realistic we could as well give up immediately since we are all going to die anyway. So some evolutionary mind warping is probably needed just to stay alive.

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