"My fear all along is that as we get closer to limits, we're going to focus on growing the gross and ignoring the net," he says. "The more that we allocate towards finding the energy and materials needed for our system, the less energy and materials are available for the rest of functioning society." But complexity will break at first before we reach mordor economy - a 'brilliant term' He asks: Will simply the oxygenl simply be turned off?

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