Originally Posted by CrankyYankee

Of course they are possible. I never said they weren't.



The economy is a human system, I was talking about a system independent of humans, the ecosystem. Human life is based on the ecosystem, NOT the economy. Without something to sustain human life the economy cannot exist. The planet IS meaningly finite, to argue anything else is absurd.

For human life to exist the environment is necessary, an economy is not.
Since one is a necessary condition for the other, it is of greater importance.