Murray Bookchin on ‘Green’ Capitalism
“To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.” - Murray Bookchin
“It is impossible to achieve a harmonization of man and nature without creating a human community that lives in a lasting balance with its natural environment.” - Murray Bookchin, Ecology and Revolutionary Thought