Planet out of business | Max Gustafson
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Planet out of business | Max Gustafson
This is all, unfortunately, a microcosm of the problems we face. We’re up against a system that views and treats hyper short-term profits as more important than our collective future. We’re up against corporations and ways of doing business that would ignite the planet before letting their profits fall – and that’s exactly what they’re doing. We, t... See more
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But ultimately consumerism will decline whether people act proactively or not, as human society has far transcended Earth’s limits.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
There is no longer the promise of a better future. Corporations already have the future of the planet in their unbreakable grip, she said. They are going to take us down. It’s the inescapable momentum of the lifestyle we all crave. Our task is no longer to try to stop it. That is futile.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
There is no longer the promise of a better future. Corporations already have the future of the planet in their unbreakable grip, she said. They are going to take us down. It’s the inescapable momentum of the lifestyle we all crave. Our task is no longer to try to stop it. That is futile.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
There is no longer the promise of a better future. Corporations already have the future of the planet in their unbreakable grip, she said. They are going to take us down. It’s the inescapable momentum of the lifestyle we all crave. Our task is no longer to try to stop it. That is futile.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
But given that consumerism and the consumption patterns it fuels are not compatible with the flourishing of a living planetary system, either we find ways to wrestle our cultural patterns out of the grip of those
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
As David Brower has said, “There is no business to be done on a dead planet.”