In today's culture of insatiable freedom, many believe that to be
human is to be an insatiable self-actualizer. Yet insatiable is not
sustainable. In order to solve today's crisis of environmental
sustainability--and human sustainability--we must let go of our
obsession to constantly be more. The desire to have all that we can
have comes, Brown argues, from a cultural norm that has evolved to
become an economic, social, and moral imperative-that To Be is to
achieve more, improve more, and insatiably have more, to the point
of planetary extinction. Incorporating the views of classic
scholars--Aristotle, J. S. Mill, Marx, Thorstein Veblen--into his
own unique interpretation, Brown traces human history from the
earliest hunters and gatherers through the emergence of capitalism
and the evolution to today's insatiable self and the culture of
insatiable freedom. In conclusion, Brown argues cogently for the
creation of a culture of sustainability, offering practical ways to
achieve this goal.
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