The post-World War II international system was consciously designed to prevent great power wars through mutually assured destruction and exponential growth in GDP, making it possible for all nations to gain resources without zero-sum conflict, but this system now creates the conditions for catastrophic risks through the cumulative environmental and technological effects of unconstrained exponential growth
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Daniel SchottenbergerEvidence Quote
“the idea of if we could exponentially grow Global GDP everybody could have more without taking each other's stuff it's so highly positive sum that we don't have to go zero someone more so the whole post World War II banking system the bread and woods monetary system Etc was part of the how do we not have World War”
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