Colin Tudge - ‘Why Genes are not Selfish and People are Nice’.

This weeks Green Thought comes from Colin Tudges  2013 book ‘Why Genes are not Selfish and People are Nice’.

 

(We) have allowed ourselves to be dominated by people whose vision of the future, if vision it can be called, is crass. Thus progress is conceived in materialist terms. The number one goal of all present governments is to generate wealth, irrespective it seems of how that wealth is created, or who hags on it, or what it is used for. The rising tide of wealth is called ‘economic growth’. Progress, too, is perceived as an exercise in control. Nature as a whole must be treated as a resource which in turn can be turned into commodities to be sold for money. All human affairs, the minutiae of our lives, must be documented and cross-referenced – so progress emerges as a giant exercise in bureaucracy, reinforced by high-tech surveillance. People who won’t subscribe to this view of progress are written off as hippies or backsliders or hopeless romantics, and countries that fail to follow the path that has been chosen for them are deemed to have ‘failed’.

 

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