I Have No Doubt That It Is

Modern Man Talks Of A Battle With Nature, Forgetting That, If He Won The Battle, He Would Find Himself On The Losing Side

By Means Of Trees, Wildlife Could Be Conserved, Pollution Decreased, And The Beauty Of Our Landscapes Enhanced. This Is The Way, Or At Least One Of The Ways, To Spiritual, Moral, And Cultural Regeneration.

Modern Industry Seems To Be Inefficient To A Degree That Surpasses One's Enduring Powers Of Imagination. Its Inefficiency Therefore Remains Unnoticed.

Anything That We Can Destroy, But Are Unable To Make Is, In A Sense, Sacred, And All Our 'explanations' Of It Do Not Explain Anything.

I Started By Saying That One Of The Most Fateful Errors Of Our Age Is The Belief That The Problem Of Production Has Been Solved. This Illusion, I Suggested, Is Mainly Due To Our Inability To Recognize That The Modern Industrial System, With All Its Intellectual Sophistication, Consumes The Very Basis On Which Is Has Been Erected. To Use The Language Of The Economist, It Lives On Irreplaceable Capital Which It Cheerfully Treats As Income.