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"Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve
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problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic Character.
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If anything, partial `solutions' serve merely as cosmetics to conceal the
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deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby deflect public
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attention and theoretical insight from an adequate understanding of the
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depth and scope of the necessary changes."
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Murray Bookchin, In The Ecology of Freedom (Palo Alto: Cheshire Books,
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1982) pg. 3
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"If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."
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Ibid
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To speak of "limits to growth" under a capitalistic market economy
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is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.
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The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environment-
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alists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative.
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Capitalism can no more be "persuaded" to limit growth than a human being
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can be "persuaded" to stop breathing. Attempts to "green" capitalism, to
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make it "ecological", are doomed by the very nature of the system as a
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system of endless growth.
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Murray Bookchin, Remaking Society, Black Rose Books(?), 1990
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