Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people to fit its own presuppositions. If people's wants are not naturally insatiable we must make them so, in order to keep the system going.

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern.