Are There Limiting Conditions on Our Civilization?

"No one in an oligarchical government, government style has any incentive to worry about the actual whole of the system itself," he says. "If you're only a criterion of success for your civilization as the maximization of any wood in your forest, that's going to turn into a wasteland" He adds: "The progressive system creates a self-reinforcing loop and no one inside the thing can move the progressive machine towards sanity"