If one were to characterize it in mathematical terms, the trajectory of our civilization is an exponential curve. Throughout the XX th century, energy and natural resources – and logically emissions of greenhouse gases – has increased with population growth. But today, would we have reached a plateau? Would we have begun to reduce our consumption, or at least stabilize? Parsimony would it becoming the new luxury? That’s what a press recent study , which estimated that Great Britain, countries behind the Industrial Revolution and one of the richest nations in the world, would have reached a maximum of objects owned by each capita amount before seeing this decline. Read More
