Guardian: John Gray reviews Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything"

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3. You can't fix the problem

The issue is our success as a species, in whatever aspect you wish to talk about. People want to dance around that, because of all the implications of it.

Or, maybe it isn't success that's the issue, but our self awareness of the downsides of it. If a bunch of lions eat too many zebras, then there won't be as many lions around. The lions die, and then there are more zebras. The cycle goes on.

We seem to think that we can regulate ourselves, without having to give anything up. That's never going to happen.