Just a sobering quote from E. O. Wilson, which sums up my feelings about where we're headed and why consideration of the economy and human well-being first, environment somewhere near or in last place, is so perilously short-sighted:
"In the real world, governed equally by the market and natural economies, humanity is in a final struggle with the rest of life. If it presses on, it will win a Cadmean victory, in which first the biosphere loses, then humanity."
Edward O. Wilson; The Future of Life; Knopf; 2002.
(A Cadmean victory is one in which the cost exacted is as great to the winner as it is to the loser)
Food for thought.
