I am therefore reloading it incase it was lost in the suffle. If it becomes a duplicate, please delete. If not, please consider my thoughts.
Economic growth is inevitable in an environment of abundant resources.
The worlds economy has been growing since the Renaissance. Capitalism has been dominant because it taps the self interest to build structure with available resources to produce personal wealth and extract more resources. The monetary system of abstracting value into currency allows for increased scale of capitalization for building structure. When the European cultures began to colonize in North American, the Native American cultures did not stand a chance of surviving even though their use of resources was infinitely sustainable. Abstracting value into currency allowed for specialization and the creation of capital goods for building infrastructure for future expansion.