...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act.

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

Civilization can never be sustainable.