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Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.