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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