It doesn't take much
imagination to demonstrate that unending growth will do our children
and theirs out of the heritage they deserve -- and that we can
survive without that unending growth and only
without it. Do you know any conservation group that is giving
this serious consideration? I don't think you do. It is one of
the taboos. I do not think that you can find an agency in government
yet willing to question growth. But some growth is bad -- for
instance, malignant growth. One way to combat malignancy is to
examine for it periodically. I believe there is malignancy in
our economy, and that all conservation will fail unless it is
checked. We need to get the checking started. We ought not be
lulled by the euphoric statement, "man's power to mold the
world to his liking is almost unlimited."
David
R. Brower
