Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an increase than a decrease in dependence.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

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

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

Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

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.