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%IDOLATROUS WORSHIP OF GROWTH STABILITY GOD+790613
%CONSUME POLLUTE RESOURCES EFFICIENT CONSERVE 790613
People who worship growth as a god can still be
dedicated to conservation of resources and improved
efficiency. Thus those who are dedicated to conservation
of resources and improved efficiency may still be
idolaters who worship growth as a god. It is not enough
to be dedicated to conservation and improved efficiency.
Such dedication may obscure idolatrous worship of growth
as a god. Conservation and efficiency may be used as
means to promote growth; they may be techniques to be used
in the service of the god of growth. Conservationists and
efficiency experts may be totally blind to the long term
consequences of the kinds of growth that they serve and
perpetuate. The fact that they are blind may be hidden
from most people's view by their dedication to
conservation and efficiency. This second kind of blockage
of vision permits the first to continue uncorrected, and
all may remain near sighted.
The idolatry of growth will not cease until
influential people become dedicated to working for
appropriate forms of long-term stability, forms which are
humane, just, creative, imaginative, loving, and joyful.
Such forms of stability may not be evident or conceivable
to those who worship growth. Even desirable forms of
stability may appear evil to those who serve growth as a
god. They are unlikely to be able to distinguish between
desirable and undesirable forms of stability. Long term
energy consumptive growth is not a stable process in the
long term, no matter how stable a process it may be in the
short term. Some forms of stability are unjust,
undemocratic, inhumane, sinful and alienative. They are
unstable in the long-term no matter how stable they may be
in the short term. Only loving forms of stability are
stable in the long term. Such forms need to be made
evident as alternatives---for consideration by those who
are dedicated to growth as a god. Only when desirable and
viable options are evident are people likely to shift
their dedication from lesser values to higher values.
Ultimately, resource consumptive growth is not the highest
value in the long term.
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