The energy crisis and the web of interrelated problems confront us with the need to explore the possibility of creating a production system that is consciously intended to serve social needs and that judges the value of its products by their use, and an economic system that is committed to these purposes. At least in principle, such a system is socialism.”

In our progress-minded society, anyone who presumes to explain a serious problem is expected to offer to solve it as well. But none of us – singly or sitting in committee – can possibly blueprint a specific “plan” for resolving the environmental crisis. To pretend otherwise is only to evade the real meaning of the environmental crisis: that the world is being carried to the brink of ecological disaster not by a singular fault, which some clever scheme can correct, but by the phalanx of powerful economic, political, and social forces that constitute the march of history.

If the environment is polluted and the economy is sick, the virus that causes both will be found in the system of production.

It is reminiscent of the crisis of the unclosed circle foreseen by Commoner, and in the Club of Rome's "Limits to Growth",

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