So we need to artificially limit the growth from the position of government power? To force people to do what WE think is good for them? Who is 'WE'? Selected few? Sorry, FASCISM is the name of the game.
What do you think the US govt., (and others), have always tried to do by "spreading democracy", i.e. forcing people to do what we want? Making regulations that put a limit on growth is preferable to unchecked expansion that leads to pollution, disease, and war. You think it's ok that the smoke from China's coal plants dumps mercury on the US?
If current way of growth is not sustainable, some resources will become scarce, the price will rise and other cheaper resources will be found and the "growth way" will change. When Earth will not be enough anymore, we'll go elsewhere. Don't think we know everything and life won't ever change anymore. It is impossible to say what life will look like in 100 years. What is sure it is that it will be much more different from our ways that our life is different from the life 100 years ago.
Developement is rapidly accelerating. One who tries to stop that, will only loose.
Climate change, man made or not, could halt development and possibly make the earth uninhabitable. Many elements are in very limited supply on earth and there may not be suitable substitutes.
If you really are into some wild thinking go look up transhumanism and singularity. And then honestly try to find reasons why it is impossible or why it won't happen sooner or later.
Simple. Over population leading to diseases, and/or war could throw civilization back to the stone ages. Technological advances need capital, resources, and a population willing and able to support research. A simple economic depression could stifle research to a large extent. This idea that technology will always save us from ourselves is unfounded. Right now excessive growth in the US is leading us into a recession, maybe even a depression, which could be world wide. It's happened before, why do you think it can't happen again?
You have starvation and disease NOW because of war for POWER. Wars for resources are long time gone. Knowledge and scientific development brought alternative sources for all resources. We need no war to get them anymore, only knowledge.
You're kidding, right? What's the miracle resource that's available right now to replace cheap oil? I guess Iraq isn't sitting on an extremely valuable resource? I'm sure we still would have invaded if there were no oil there. Most wars are resource wars in one way or another.
All this global warming hysteria is only a way to gain even more power over people. To raise taxes and scare them for scared do not think.
Right, because billions of humans dumping pollution into the atmosphere for the last 100 years couldn't have any effect on climate
It makes a lot of sense for the people in power to make up global warming so they can then cost businesses money trying to mitigate this imaginary effect. These same businesses that buy and pay for our leaders. Yeah, that crazy cartel of tree huggers that secretly rule the world are forcing poor big business to comply