Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.