{"id":37924,"date":"2026-08-16T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=37924"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:23:25","slug":"is-it-inevitable-that-consumerism-will-literally-fill-up-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=37924","title":{"rendered":"Is it inevitable that consumerism will literally fill up the planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts<\/p>\n<p>Readers reply: How is it physically possible to continue breaking sporting records?<\/p>\n<p>If consumer capitalism continues at its current rate, will we reach a point at which there is literally no space left on Earth for all the stuff that has been created? Alex Robinson, Alnwick, Northumberland<\/p>\n<p>Post your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/aug\/16\/is-it-inevitable-that-consumerism-will-literally-fill-up-the-planet' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Readers reply: How is it physically possible to continue breaking sporting records? If consumer capitalism continues at its current rate, will we reach a point at which there is literally no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}