¶ Selfishness
RBF Definitions
"…Vastly wealthy interests… were continuing to do what money had done in the past: i.e., to rationalize selfishness. Assuming the political concept of fundamental inadequacy of life-support for all the humans around our planet, selfishness had been able to say, ‘I have those for whom I’m responsible and because there is not enough life-support for all, I am obliged to do various things that are utterly and completely selfish,’
“I felt that the Club of Rome’s pronunciation of the ‘Limits to Growth’ represented history’s last attempt on the part of organized capitalists’ selfishness to justify to the world public why their wealth should be unable to do anything about the third world.”
- Citation & context at Club of Rome: Limits to Growth, (A); (B), 20 Sep’76
¶ Citations
- Club of Rome: Limits to Growth, (A); (B), 20 Sep’76
