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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
Edward Abbey

“Our options today are limited in number: we might abjure our faith in reason and follow the ‘Old Gnostic’, which would give us visionary powers, primordial energies, organic awareness, adventures of spiritual regeneration, organic wholeness and similar somber evasions (Roszak, 1972); we might continue to believe that science is the only source of salvation and that more science and technology can cure the ills of today’s society, hiding to ourselves the ominous signs of impending catastrophes; or we might humbly recognize that the problems at hand are larger than our ability to understand, that we must widen the limits of our concern much beyond strictly scientific issues, and that, in cooperation with sociologists, philosophers and other thinkers, we must attempt to find a new meaning for progress. […]
In his book on The sociology of progress, Leslie Sklair (1970) has made a distinction between innovational and non-innovational progress: the former is ‘progress by means of the production of new things, ideas and processes, with maximum impact on society’ (through the institutionalization of invention and discovery); the latter is ‘progress by means of the maintenance and diffusion of familiar things, ideas and processes with minimal impact on society’; the term ‘impact’ being used in a special sense to signify the effect that the different types of progress have on social structures. It may be that, after many decades of frantic innovative progress, reason would advise us to enter a period of non-innovative progress or of profound social rather than of technological innovations.”