I'll give Robertson this: she finally, after spending at least several pages fear-mongering about overpopulation, said that
the driver for [how fucked our planet is getting] is economic
Is she gonna say it?
The economic growth model that has been at the core of human commercial activity since World War II
Interesting, I wonder if there's a name for this "economic growth model" or if anything in particular may incentivize it.
With the advent of agriculture the idea of ownership appeared [...] along with the specialization of labor, forms of government including class division and some form of money as a medium of exchange.
Ah, agriculture. I knew it was to blame all along. If only the idea of ownership hadn't magically and naturally "appeared" as a consequence of growing plants, we wouldn't be in this mess 
Well, glad that's solved
(Quotes from Sustainability Principles and Practice by Margaret Robertson)
