Obsession: Fastest growing production system in the world

Why is everyone so OBSESSED with growth?

"Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production system in the world." ...

> I mean, you know what happens to ANY system with exponential growth, right? It plateaus, then levels off at a lower level.
>> Plus, if e.g., bateria do it, they're "bound by their environment" (they can only have so much impact in a human body, or a petri dish).
>>> If humans do it, on the global scale, we're influencing all of the other systems.

... "As the industry grows, so does its footprint on the environment and on local communities.

> Ah, ok. At least they said it.
>> But they're still selling fast growth as "the schabang", the reason to join the industry.

- ASC job profile description, here.

Growth, schmowth*.

Unless it's personal growth we are talking about.

*Thinking (so by no means final opinion, just shaping it): the faster we race towards the top or bottom, towards any system limit, the faster we reach it, right?
And if we incur more environmental damage along the way, it will be harder, once we reach the top ... and then face that slight decline which inevitably follows (plateau-ing),

to maintain a standard of life. Or just life (as we know it).

So, I'm arguing for conscientious, conscious, mindful, whatever you call it, "progress". Taking species, including human beings, along with us for the ride to the top. And I would argue it need not be a straight line. When you walk a landscape, and you're going somewhere, be it in a jungle, a bog or in a forest, it's seldom that you can take s beeline towards your goal. You need curves and deviations.