Common DreamsPublished on Wednesday, December 19, 2018
by
Kristine Mattis ✨ Kristine Mattis holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources. She is no relation to the mad-dog general.
Email: k_mattis@outlook.com
SNIPPET:
We can keep deluding ourselves that economic growth and technological innovation will save our planetary ecosystem from utter annihilation,
but that presumption is not based on sound knowledge of history or science. Economic growth hasn’t even created the more equitable economic prosperity that it supposedly should (
though we should know by now that assertion was simply a lie).
Just because we have been programmed to think the economy is the most important system on earth,
this erroneous notion will not stop the rapidly deteriorating ecological conditions on the planet.Full article: