The degrowth premise that natural limits have been breached contradicts the historical record.

The degrowth premise-that we have breached fixed natural limits-inverts the actual historical record. It is precisely growth that has, again and again, dissolved the limits that were confidently declared final: the Malthusian ceiling on food, the peak-resource panics, the recurring predictions of exhaustion, each overturned not by restraint but by the productivity and substitution that growth alone makes possible.