Progress and Justice

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The paper argues that progress will not lead to the destruction of the environment because we merely need to think through what our understanding of progress is, or should be and encourage the young to work for progress of kinds other than financial progress. The paper also refutes as a statement that justice is the will of the weak over the strong, noting that justice is an ideal and in many human situations, injustice is counterproductive.

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"Human ideas of progress do not lead ultimately to the destruction of the earth's environment. The paper explains that the earth's environment has been harmed because of ideas of what progress is that have been incorrect. For example, the Industrial Revolution in Europe happened in ways that made human beings believe that they were conquering nature and that this was a good thing and that it would keep bringing new prosperity. In the same way, the Western business world rose up in this long idea of progress, in much larger markets, in the search for new products and markets and a total mindset that was geared to making profits by conquering new challenges."

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