"The Industrial Revolution was the starting point for explosive fossil fuel energy consumption, human population growth, technological innovation, global expansionism and human wellbeing. But another exponential growth period occurred… since the 1950s. The global war reaped so much destruction that the post war reconstruction effort accelerated many earth system and socio-economic indicators. Today, it is obvious that we are consuming resources and expelling pollution far beyond what our ecosystems can supply and absorb respectively… [and] it certainly looks like a collapse event is a real possibility. The earth is big, but it’s still finite, and we cannot possibly continue consuming at an exponential rate on a finite planet."