There are many who argue that increasing efficiencies can greatly contribute to the effort at controlling resource exhaustion. The article explores this thesis and provides evidence to show that under capitalism it only results in more production which leads to more resource exhaustion.
...there are those who maintain that we should “live high now and let the future take care of itself.” To choose this course, though, is to court planetary disaster. The only real answer for humanity (including future generations) and the earth as a whole is to alter the social relations of production, to create a system in which efficiency is no longer a curse—a higher system in which equality, human development, community, and sustainability are the explicit goals.
