"To save ourselves we need to change everything. Growth is in our
language, our thought, our DNA, our very idea of time. Growth seems like
an advance in linear time. We can’t just go nowhere forever. Growth, as
the essential human purpose, will force us to burn carbon based fuels.
This should all be obvious but crosses the threshold of allowable
thought for many people. Time must again become a spiral, and success
measured in lack of change, lack of growth, indeed shrinkage, year to
year. Only that kind of about face will give a remote chance of human
survival. And of course even then the chance of remaining below 2° C is
remote. The implications are enormous but not too hard for anyone to see
in outline. Of course nobody wants to see it. For how is such a
momentous change to be effected? And if it is not, what do we do then?"
-- Michael Doliner
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