"Hưng thịnh của cuộc sống không phải con người sinh trên hành tinh này yêu cầu một kết thúc để tăng dân số của con người" (A. Taylor, "động vật" 264). Để giảm thiểu sự can thiệp, con người cần phải bỏ giống với sự thờ ơ với thế giới lớn hơn. Chúng tôi cần phải cam kết một chính sách nogrowth. | 432 CHAPTER EIGHT globe. The flourishing of sentient non-human life on this planet requires an end to human population growth A. Taylor Animal 264 . To minimize interference humans need to quit breeding with such indifference to the larger world. We need to commit to a nogrowth policy. The greatest harm a human being can do is to have a child especially in capitalistic resource-consuming Western countries. North American children use a tremendous amount of resources in comparison with youngsters in most other countries. From abundant school supplies to extensive medical care from double-packaged foods to fast-moving vehicles Americans are . Humans everywhere take a heavy toll on the environment but humans in the West are the most environmentally destructive animals on earth. Has any other animal in the last few million years had such a negative impact on water air forests soil or ozone layer the environment in general as we have in the past century If any other species caused as much trouble as we do human beings would engage in mass killing to reduce the numbers of such a dangerous and bothersome lot. Humans are the bane of the earth and capitalism a primary vice because of its dependence on unlimited unsustainable growth. Resources are finite and the biosphere has a limited ability to support human expansion and our concurrent destructive activities. Unlimited growth is the ideology of the cancer cell which ultimately destroys its habitat the host body. In this way humans have become a cancer degrading and obliterating the habitats of nearly every other life-form and enslaving or killing previous occupants. The millions of other species gain nothing from our economic pursuits but they suffer the consequences. The Minimize Harm Maxim includes a moral imperative to minimize consumption regardless of the effects on economic growth. Ongoing and extensive ecological degradation are the result of a conflict between our moralities and religions and our .
