Exploding the Myth of Progress

Oct 11, 2012 15:04

Tom Wessels had to pull over when he heard President Bush’s statement: “Economic growth is the key to environmental progress.”

As an ecologist, Wessels was stunned.

Bush’s comments, made on Valentine’s Day in 2002, aired on NPR. Wessels’ response, The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future, published in 2006, explodes the myth of growth as a scientifically unfounded-and unsupportable-idea.

Read on, Macduff, at Scholars & Rogues.

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