The analogy of runaway growth as symbolic of the cancer epidemic running along side it seems apropos and rings true in various models (TCM in particular) but here is an excellent documentary looking at the unmitigated growth of the consumer / capitalist world we are living in. www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2019/01/growing-pains-ecological-cost-insatiable-economy-190121045037084.html