In 1856, John Stuart Mill had used the term "stationary state" in the 2nd volume of the *Principles of Political Economy* – "If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it." [[Story River - Degrowth]]