Science and the Future: Introduction

Science and the Future: Introduction

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The contradiction between physical and economical sciences concerning the growth of the production/consumption mechanism is analyzed.It is then shown that if one wishes to keep the security level stable or to enhance it in a growing economy the cost Swim of security grows faster than the gross wealth.The result is a typical evolution in which the net wealth increases up to a FME/F-Type/N-Type maximum, then abruptly collapses.Besides this, any system of relations based on a growing volume of exchanges is bound to go progressively out of control.The voluntary blindness of the ruling classes toward these facts is leading our societies to a disaster.

This fate is not inescapable provided we learn to dismantle the myth of perpetual growth.