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by autokad 4167 days ago
and then they have more people and need more food, need more support for their ecosystem because of the exploding population is destroying it, and now you have uneducated people so they need education assistance, schools etc, etc etc. it seems like it would never end
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Any truly sustainable solution must address all these issues.

You've hit on the fundamental challenge of complex systems — it's the interactions between components that determines the behavior, not the components themselves. I would strongly recommend the video I linked elsewhere in this thread, if only as a "crash course" in systems thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmChiLZZHg#t=27m53s