Is the world a zero sum game or an open system shaped by creativity and cooperation? What truly defines humanity’s supposed “limits to growth” and what is a “limited resource”? Is overpopulation a true crisis or is it a myth?
In this second episode in the ongoing series ‘Escaping Calypso’s Island’, Cynthia Chung explores these questions, and examines the fallacies underlying the popular notion that human civilization can only grow at the expense of nature.