" Life on Earth has the chance of another five billion years in its favour, at which point our star, the sun, will start to die. Earth’s Holocene-like conditions could continue for another 50,000 years—as Chapter 1 described—if we humans learn to navigate the Anthropocene without pushing our planet into a far hotter, drier, and more hostile state. The economies that we create could keep on thriving—not growing, but thriving—for millennia too, if we manage them wisely. "

― Kate Raworth , Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist