This Civilisation is Finished

Earth-centred or nature-centred pantheism

anthropocentric humanism could be understood as an attempt to replace religion as we have known it historically with a kind of self-worship, a narcissism of humanity.

And green growthism is merely a subset of growthism

Actual reductions in levels of economic activity are needed.30

We can’t keep growing the cake when the ingredients are running out and the kitchen is filling with smoke.

We cannot endlessly expand the economy and still be green; it’s oxymoronic.

Real progress would be something very different, and perhaps later we could return to this issue and consider what it might look like.

Many human dreams have become thoroughly infected by materialism, myths of ‘progress’, etc.

e should not support dreams that point in the opposite direction to this wisdom.

we are starting to learn by now that if something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.