Example: you grow in population, so you grow more food to feed them, and you grow more industry to make things to satisfy them, and grow better health care so people live longer, then you have more people, and need more food, and more houses, and more stuff, which results in more people, more food, more stuff, etc, etc, onward to infinity and beyond.

The weak link in this is that there is a finite amount of “resources” to support this ever upward spiral of need and growth. Earth is finite, there are only so many rocks and minerals. Trees, plants and animals grow and reproduce but the constantly expanding growth model consumes them faster than they can reproduce – which is the essence of the Unsustainable Model we live in today.

Sustainability is about only consuming what can be reproduced so that future generations can enjoy the same satisfaction. Think about hunting: if you have a herd of deer and you kill them all to eat, you won’t have deer next year. If you kill and eat some deer, the rest reproduce and you can kill and eat some more deer the next year.

I’m not a hunter though, so lets go with crops:

If you plant corn and eat it all, you don’t have any seed to grow next years corn. If you save half for seed, and eat the other half, you have corn every year.

The “stasis” economic model was long ago discredited. Beyond that, it defies common sense.

The Green Party’s Transatlantic/Global New Deal is a realistic, pragmatic political platform for growing the economy with Green jobs in Rail, Solar, Wind, Geo Thermal.

That’s the constructive path.