There’s an interesting article at the Scientific American website about sustainability and (capitalism’s need for) an ever-expanding market.
www.scientificamerican.com/…
The article concludes with the following:
“We have argued that the inextricable link between material consumption and GDP makes the infinite-growth paradigm incompatible with sustaining ecological integrity. Thus, while EVs constitute a partial answer to the climate question, within the current paradigm they will only exacerbate the larger anthropogenic crises connected to unsustainable resource consumption.
“The real question is this: how do we transition to alternative economic paradigms founded on the reconciliation of equitable human well-being with ecological integrity?”