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Sustainable Growth Challenge
The basic intuition in a renewable degrowth world is that running an exponential economy on a finite planet is not sustainable. While some argue that the digital or services economy can decouple from the material economy, the reality is that all economies still require materials, which leads to growth and increases in the total material economy. In a pure market system, increases in efficiency also contribute to the growth of the material economy as returns are sought wherever possible.