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Extinction Embracing Us The Curse of Unlimited Growth William Dixon Books

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Unlimited growth is the engine that will, if unchecked, carry us to extinction, along with most existing species on Earth. Capitalism is unlimited growth. It starts at the top, with the wealthy, forever growing their wealth, at the cost of the rest of life on the planet. All Western societies are firmly convinced that growth, like change, is only good; this outlook is fomented and encouraged by the wealthy, who through all the malignant, unlimited growths derive their growing profits. They need our agreement to do this. We all want our money to grow, because we want the number of our things to grow. The consumption locomotive, with every more novelties to entice us, grows also and gains momentum with our acquisitiveness. It is just growth, growth, and more growth! Spending by governments and people is always growing, so that national and credit card debt continue to grow, as does the money supply, in order to keep pace with it. The wealthy want, and obtain, ever more growth of the wealth of the world - though they have nearly all of it already. Growth is viewed as being robust, when in fact it is the cancer which is bringing the world down in every way. If we would only see the wisdom in curbing growth – or even retarding it – and would renounce the destructive capitalistic axiom, that everything must grow and grow…but we do not get it, for we are spun inside a materialistic kaleidoscope of things and more things, with our wits ever duller. Growth, in the final analysis, as this book will show, should be seen, as it is in medical manuals something suspect - in many cases to be excised. Today we live super-convenient but very complicated lives. Super-convenient because of the ever-increasing variety of things the consumption train brings us. Complicated because of the media-avalanche that is constantly pouring over us and demanding our response - more numbers, our own human numbers, identity numbers, passwords, user i.d., etc. - perhaps because we secretly are a bit masochistic and invite it when we needn’t. It is a global world, tech-tied in every way by numbered references, and somehow despite our original sense that the world is big, tech constricts us more and more, making us ciphers to be omitted when desired. Desired by the super-rich and their paid minions, the establishment. At the other end of the spectrum, and including five times as many humans, is the extremely simple life of the billions of poor who live from day to day, under ever worse conditions. We think not of them, so caught up are we in our tech-lives, but their numbers grow insensibly larger every second. Their growing numbers are what are bringing us to the brink of extinction, but we remain consciously unaware of it. In a matter of a few decades, there will not be enough food and/or water on, or in, the globe to sustain the people on it. The only faint hope we have of beating this near certainty is becoming aware of it and combatting it, starting right now, because the longer we wait, the more certain the doom-scenario becomes, and the numbers never let up, are always in slow forward, with an immense population base producing more and more flesh. Births are still many more than deaths, and this will not change until the equation is irreversible. The terrible irony is that we have at most only an inchoate feeling of dread regarding it, and we do not want to know any more about it. That combination is what will very probably drive us and nearly all existing species around us over the abyss. We, and only we, are to blame.