Capital natural e capital construído

Parece óbvio, não é?

O que não é óbvio é a ilustração provir de um artigo de um (arrgg!) economista, Herman Daly, num artigo publicado no Scientific American:

Most contemporary economists do not agree that the U.S. economy and others are heading into uneconomic growth. They largely ignore the issue of sustainability and trust that because we have come so far with growth, we can keep on going ad infinitum.
[...]But the facts are plain and uncontestable: the biosphere is finite, nongrowing, closed (except for the constant input of solar energy), and constrained by the laws of thermodynamics. Any subsystem, such as the economy, must at some point cease growing and adapt itself to a
dynamic equilibrium, something like a steady state. Birth rates must equal death rates, and production rates of commodities must equal depreciation rates.

Vale a pena ler o resto do artigo e, já agora, os restantes do mesmo autor.