The Environmental Crisis Is Not Sold by Taking Growth Out of Its Social Context

To take growth out of its proper social context is to distort and privatize the problem. It is inaccurate and unfair to coerce people into believing that they are personally responsible for present-day ecological dangers because they consume too much or proliferate too readily. What the production end of the environmental crisis cannot sell to the consumption end, it will certainly sell to the military. General Electric enjoys considerable eminence, not only for its refrigerators, but also for its gatling guns. This shadowy side of the environmental problem can only be ignored by attaining an ecological erudentness so vacacious as to defy description.