"Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of the crisis. Quite simply, to feed the increasing demands of our consumer based system, humans have seen nature as a great resource for our personal convenience and profit, not as a living ecosystem from which all life springs. So we have built our economic and development policies based on a human-centric model and assumed either that nature would never fail to provide or that, where it does fail, technology will save the day."
Found on : http://childofillusion.blogspot.com/2010/10/headline-to-beat-them-all.html.
The thesis is almost true, but not quite. The formulation is too nice, and leads to a false conclusion. We have not built our economic and development policies on a "human-centric model" but on pure and unadulterated greed.
Our model should remain human-centered (or should we venerate the goddess nature as the thesis implies ?). We should focus on a quest for happiness centered on true human qualities such as freedom, solidarity and equality, not on greed.
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