Our culture has no concept of stopping. We continue to build
motorways and airports for a future in which cars and planes may no
longer exist. We’re converting our planet from a natural one to
an artificial one in which the quantity of man-made objects –
houses, asphalt, cars, plastic, computers and so on – now exceeds
the totality of living matter. And while biomass continues to
decline due to deforestation and species extinction, the mass of
man-made objects is growing faster than ever. We’re on a
treadmill to disaster. To get off this treadmill, argues Harald
Welzer, we need to learn how to stop: as individuals and as
societies, we need to stop doing what we’re doing and say
‘enough’. We find it hard to do this because our culture has
trained us to regard endless escalation as desirable, and we’re
reluctant to surrender the material benefits of growth. But as long
as the expansive cultural model continues to prevail, there will be
no change of course in favour of sustainable and climate-friendly
practices and lifestyles. We need a cultural model in which the
beauty of stopping is given the recognition needed for the project
of civilization to continue. Optimizing processes that are heading
in the wrong direction only makes matters worse. Stopping is
imperative: it is a human cultural technique that we must re-learn.
Only then can we achieve a new beginning.
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