Conversation

Thinking about the ecological concept of 'limits to growth' - and why so many people who are deeply (um) invested in capitalism, react with (often literal) religious fear when presented with that idea.

It struck me that 'there are limits to growth' is very often parsed by conservatives as 'there should be LIMITS TO FREEDOM'.

They've somehow accepted that 'freedom must equal permanent growth'.

Bound up in the myth of the Wild West, I think.