Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. The headline does make a joke of it, but consider the mission: “If we want to live in a society that consumes l

Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. The headline does make a joke of it, but consider the mission: “If we want to live in a society that consumes less energy, wastes fewer resources, [the constant success spiral] is not the right system of values,” Professor von Borries told Germany’s Deutsche Welle broadcaster. Some successes certainly are worth wasting resources on, and I'm sure no oncologists will get approved for this scholarship. There is a great deal of busy and redundant work out there though. No one should be stuck doing that...