If we create dependable, practical things that never break, few people will do anything more than depend upon them, and likely would never learn to create things themselves.
So then, if six or seven billion people learn, and then go on to create something that lasts, compounded across mutliple generations, each with a delta of several billion, we're left with pollution.
So then, if six or seven billion people learn, and then go on to create something that lasts, compounded across mutliple generations, each with a delta of several billion, we're left with pollution.