Fixation on Growth

The introduction to the novel "Deep Economy" is very attention grabbing. The author Bill McKibben starts of with a quote from the worldly famous economist John Maynard Keynes. This is the theme throughout the entire first section. McKibben continues to reference upon very important authors. One of the major quotes that stuck out to me was about the fixation on growth and the challenges it faces. The passage includes three very trivial points on the challenges it faces. These points can be questioned by people because to some they might not be the most important three. "These three objections mesh with each other in important ways; taken together, they suggest that we'll no longer be able to act wisely, either in our individual lives or in public life, simply by asking which choice will produce More" (McKibben 11). This quote shows the importance of these three challenges and how they mesh together. After reading this section and many other parts of the novel, I have come to the decision that these are the three most important challenges that the fixation on growth is all about.