Sunday, August 26, 2012

Increasing Wealth

Another part of the novel that I found very fascinating was when the author Bill McKibben was writing about some of the important mistakes us, as humans have made. In the beginning of the discussion on this topic he explains that the only thing we are focusing on is increasing our wealth. "On the list of important mistakes we've made as a species, this one seems pretty high up. A single-minded focus on increasing wealth had driven the planet's ecological systems to the brink of failure, without making us happier. How did we screw up?" (McKibben 43). I definitely believe that this is one of the major points/arguments presented by the author. He is explaining that if we continue just to focus on the increase of our own wealth, our economy is going to take a turn for the worse. Like he said just because this method may have worked in the past does not mean that it is going to work today.

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