The concept of endless economic growth is impossible.

The thing that makes the global economic situation very difficult. Is this. Our economic principle is growth. That continues forever. One way to grow demand is to make new people. The endless growth principle in economics. Created in the Roman Empire. In the Roman Empire, endless wars guaranteed endless growth. And after that, colonialism made it possible to follow that principle. When Europeans conquered a new country. That country needed a new infrastructure. For things. Like troop transportation. When there was overpopulation in Europe. 

The solution was to send people who had no jobs to the colonies. Today, growing economies with a growing population are absurd things. We know that if there are too many people. That means that there is not enough food for everybody. In the Roman Empire. And. In colonial countries, the solution for overpopulation was to send people to colonies. And that caused bloody conflicts. Because native people competed for the same farmlands.  And that is the sad inheritance. From colonial times. 

Before WWI, the increasing population was necessary because people were needed in the army. And before machinery and industrialism. People are needed for work. But then machines took people's work. That left many unemployed people. In the country. And that caused rebellions. When people were not working, they had time to share thoughts that were seen as harmful. Sending people who had no work to colonies made it possible to solve the problems. That's what the idle people caused.  If those people opened the wrong books, they got the wrong influence. And that was not tolerated. 

That means there should always be more people who buy some products. If we think that fuel energy sources like gas and oil are. And raw materials like cotton are things that we use all the time; we face a very complicated problem. That problem is that even if people want to buy cotton and fuel, they need something. That uses those things. If we want to sell things like petroleum, we face a problem. People must have something that uses petroleum. Or they must burn that petroleum in a pothole. 

They need cars, and they buy petroleum for those cars. So they don’t donate money for nothing. If people don’t have cars or motorcycles, they don’t need petroleum for travel. If their car uses electricity, that leaves petroleum stations without customers. The difference between petroleum and a car is simple. People who own a car that uses a combustion engine need petroleum. But people who have an electric car don’t need petroleum for short trips. The thing that makes this picture a little bit complicated is that. People don’t buy cars every year. They don’t buy houses and factory halls every year. 

That means, even if we buy things like cotton all the time. We don’t need new houses. Same way. We need cotton or energy sources. That thing doesn’t mean that we don’t need houses. We all want to live in some kind of house. And that means there is always. Some need for construction companies. But the problem is that we don’t need those companies or their services all the time. When we think. About the growth of the markets. There are different types of markets. Markets of short-period everyday products. Like petroleum. And the markets for the products with long-term use. Reconciliation of those things. It is sometimes very difficult. 

That can keep their values for tens or even hundreds of years. If we want to build buildings, we need some buyers for those products. People can live in the same house. Even hundreds of years. If the house is properly made. When we want to sell new houses to people. We need people who buy those houses. So, in cases like houses, there is a need for new people. A decreasing population means that. People don’t buy as many houses and cars. Than in the past. This kind of thing affects the products. These are meant for long-term use. Even if people buy petroleum, they don’t buy houses. That causes. unemployment in the construction sector.