Al Gore made a similar point in An Inconvenient Truth. What will all the money and stuff we own matter if the world is ruined and we die off? Consumer culture ruined this economy, and it’s ruining the planet. Watch Fight Club and American Beauty. Buy less shit.
Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis and ask a radical question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it’s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply unsustainable economically and ecologically and that 2008 was when we hit the wall — when Mother Nature and the market both said: “No more.” –Thomas Friedman
March 10, 2009
Everything Is Music 