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What's really missing here is a time horizon I assume you meant "irreversibly sustainability-centric" which should hide beyond the unknowable, ever-receding constraints of human innovation (where we're constantly discovering more room for growth with each breakthrough)
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Locally or globally? For example, (material) growth may be limited so long as your confined to a single planet. An interstellar species starts looking like it has fewer (functional) limits, even if any one planet eventually enters "sustainability mode".
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Assuming that we're treating growth-centric and sustainability-centric as opposites? Hypothesize that we will "grow" into tech that is intrinsically more sustainable. Might be a cop out to the question.
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At a certain point "sustainable" tech will become more economic than non-sustainable tech, so economic growth & "sustainability" will be in alignment.