Are You On a ‘Hedonic Treadmill’? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com: "John Sterman, whose work comparing the building greenhouse effect to a clogged, filling bathtub has been explored here, has weighed in on the questions I posed about whether the recent consumption slowdown is, in the long run, a good thing. His comments below, exploring the “hedonic treadmill,” follow those of Kenneth Arrow, Herman Daly and Juliet Schor. Also, I’ve got to direct your attention to a comment posted by Gary Peters, who provides an apt quotation from John Stuart Mill, circa 1848. Here’s a teaser:
“…If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger but not a better or a happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it” Read more…"
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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