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> [Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-simms/growth-has-failed-on-its-own-terms-you-can-t-have-infinite-growth-in/)

[Andrew Simms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-simms/)

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## More by Andrew Simms

> [It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-simms/it-s-a-topsy-turvy-world-in-which-a-country-can-import-the-same/)

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> [Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-simms/economics-becomes-redundant-if-it-can-rationalise-an-exchange-that/)

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> [Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-simms/growth-has-failed-on-its-own-terms-you-can-t-have-infinite-growth-in/)

[Andrew Simms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-simms/)

> [We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-simms/we-are-about-half-a-century-away-from-being-ecologically-and/)

[Andrew Simms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-simms/)

> [Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-simms/britain-has-squandered-its-windfall-of-natural-resources-from-north/)

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