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.
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And green growthism is merely a subset of growthism
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Actual reductions in levels of economic activity are needed.30
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We can’t keep growing the cake when the ingredients are running out and the kitchen is filling with smoke.
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We cannot endlessly expand the economy and still be green; it’s oxymoronic.
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Real progress would be something very different, and perhaps later we could return to this issue and consider what it might look like.
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Many human dreams have become thoroughly infected by materialism, myths of ‘progress’, etc.
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e should not support dreams that point in the opposite direction to this wisdom.
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we are starting to learn by now that if something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.