Industrial revolutions
Where traffics, crimes, pollutions, corruptions, and totally environmental destructions happened.
They said economic growth is an artefact of the use of fossil fuels. Before large amounts of coal were extracted, every upswing in industrial production would be met with a down swing in agriculture production. As the charcoal or horse power required by industry reduced the land available for growing food. Every prior industrial revolution collapsed, as growth could not be sustained. But coal broke this cycle and enable
for a few hundred years.
And the phenomenon we now call sustained growth.
The Deep Green Resistance
