Without true conservation we can continue to squander scarce resources to exercise all our surplus labor. Without conservation we can have our giant SUVs. It is our plan to avoid change. But, more growth is really no plan at all in the face of looming changes. Conservation of perishables using recycling and efficiency are already our goals, but the use of durability to conserve has had little notice.
Durability allows doing less without having less.
Because durability has been neglected we have a lot to gain when we starting using durability to conserve. We can make deep cuts in consumption without sacrifice by designing new products to maximize their lifetime, efficiency and repairability. We wouldn't need to encourage growth to make jobs if everyone got some small share of unearned income. A small income could provide a life of luxury in a system that doesn't need to be wasteful. If we don't shrink real earned income, we aren't really conserving resources.