From a standard progressive perspective, I agree with this criticism of the Republican leadership's take on the economy. From a deep ecology perspective, however, I do not see much difference between what the right and left are proposing with regard to the direction that civilization should take. Indeed, since the advent of the Industrial Revolution, even since the invention of agriculture if you want to really identify the roots of the problem (no pun intended), human beings have exerted a disproportionate and malignant force on the Earth, its nonhuman inhabitants, and its systems. Quibbling about relatively small differences in how the human economy should be run really misses the larger point, which is that human behavior has to be radically changed in such a way as to restore life on Earth to a more mutual state of health for everyone and every thing.
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