@Daojoan I studied economics at school and even then, I felt this forever growth business was iffy.

Economics is a pseudoscience - they have 'laws' which aren't laws, there is no way of proving anything, the only hard and fast truths are things that have already happened.

They predict continuous market growth because that's what has come before - world population increases, ergo market increases.

But new resources are not really being discovered any more, and population increase is slowing.