We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

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

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

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

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.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.