@TrevorGoodchild @BattleDwarfGimli @PraxisOfEvil Permanent Growth was seen as possible because for a long time it was pretty much true that if you could imagine it, you could do it.

If you watch enough stuff from like the 50s-70s .. silly stuff like videos that GM made about creating a new car, things like that. ( I think I remember watching one about the creation of mid-engine car ) .. that sense of absolute optimism was everywhere.