The global governing class, supported by their clients in media and entertainment will use all the tools they know to increase growth even for only a short period, even though they know the damaging consequences.
Here's a selection - along with NEEDS examples
- Tax cuts for the rich
- Reduce regulation
- Open up new oil fields inc fracking
- Enslave another population into a subservient role (cheap labour, captive market, useful foreign policy fall guy)
- Capture a key resource
- Start a war which will increase weapons production and employment
- Start a war which will substitute a competitor's income