Comments on: How will the world change? https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-will-the-world-change/2007/05/29 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 30 May 2007 06:33:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Kevin Carson https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-will-the-world-change/2007/05/29/comment-page-1#comment-75395 Wed, 30 May 2007 06:33:57 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-will-the-world-change/2007/05/29#comment-75395 Your comment on artificial abundance of natural goods and artificial scarcity in the digital world is absolutely brilliant.

But “sustainability” and “material growth” are not necessarily at odds. The reason that economic growth (defined as an increase in the sum total of value created) does not equate to increased consumption of physical resources. A high degree of growth and increase living standards can be achieved, arguably, by more efficient or intensive use of a stable (or shrinking) amount of physical resources.

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