> Not for any virtue other than its capacity to promote thriving and survival in an unstable future. It does not have this capacity. The overconsumption fetish

> Not for any virtue other than its capacity to promote thriving and survival in an unstable future. It does not have this capacity. The overconsumption fetish (and its close ally, overwork) has brought the world's ecosystems to the brink of collapse. They have made the future critically unstable. If we had cultivated instead a cultural ethic of sufficiency, with so-called 'productivity' gains invested in increased leisure and sociality rather than multiplying raids on complex sustainable evolved systems to build crude unsustainable technological ones, we'd be in much better shape now.