ourselves if what we consider rationalize welfare is actually happening. He claims that democracy is being affected mainly because people are in competition with each other; the rich versus the poor.
I am certain that progress, as of now, is not possible due to the overuse and erroneous use of our resources. The comforts that suffice our needs and desires end up affecting our resources. Lasch claims that the reckless life enjoyed by the West is not available to everyone without elongating the resources that earth provides us with (1). What he is roughly arguing is that wants have been converted into needs and to then be produced, these needs require resources from the environment. In modern-day progress, in terms of resources, we continue to use up more than what is available. A recent example of waste of resources can be seen in a research made by Bonnie McBain, tutor of Sustainability Science at the University of Newcastle, that states that the discrepancy between ecological footprints and biocapacity is expected to continue until 2050 and that our global footprint is expected to exceed the p...