the depletion fishing stocks water shortage depressing story the cycle of organic compounds has doubled in the last forty years sustained production and release of new substances uncertainty the longrun functioning of the systems worrisome poverty allevation growth is hence both a blessing and a curse it is paramount foremost be directed towrds the needs throughput low unsafe if growth fades, a negative spiral starts, threatening to ruin society It seems as if there is fairly little to gain by expanding yearly percapita income beyond If therefore poverty erradication and long-run ecological sustainability are at stake. halting capital accumulation and consumption in the rich countries seems to be wise. to be wise feasible rather would detach into digging smaller holes to dig deep also as forming the individual and creating meaning constraints choice sets wage games resource regimes upbringing profit ward lenght pay-off set up with identical pay-offs run by alluding institutional settings settings evoke splitting splits day-care publicly state-owned allot not purchasing power may arise too weak briefly inputs labour is only another name for a human activity which goes with life itself, which in its turn is not produced for sale but for entirely different reasons, land is only another name for nature, which is not produced by man its turn enclosure movement underway settling mix fix unproblematic scarcity to turn to could be buried in the belief that through material output growth, all of us would in the end be well off defeated inauspicious endanger trends are worrying upgraded sketchy raising awareness against the tide