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Great visualisation. It's good to focus on the stocks instead of the flows.

"to feed the continued growth in industrial output there must be ever-increasing use of resources. But resources become more expensive to obtain as they are used up. As more and more capital goes towards resource extraction, industrial output per capita starts to fall [...]

As pollution mounts and industrial input into agriculture falls, food production per capita falls. Health and education services are cut back, and that combines to bring about a rise in the death rate" [1]

"Broadly stated, most ecological problems reduce to a single problem of balancing supply and demand." [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/limits...

[2] http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/info/quotes.html