Our practical faith in progress has ramified and hardened into an ideology -- a secular religion which, like the religion that progress has challenged, is blind to certain flaws in its credentials. Progress, therefore, has become 'myth' in the anthropological sense. ~ Ronald Wright A Short History of Progress
Air pollution increases green house gases, reduces protective ozone, weakens human immune systems and undermines our general health. Fun stuff. Is all this a worthy tradeoff for the stuff we make in the process? Or can we avert this progress trap by rethinking the pattern of our industrial exploitation?
