The Culture of StoppingOur culture has no concept of stopping. We continue to build motorways and airports for a future in which cars and planes may no longer exist. Were converting our planet from a natural one to an artificial one in which the quantity of man made objects houses, asphalt, cars, plastic, computers, and so on now exceeds the totality of living matter. And while biomass continues to decline due to deforestation and species extinction, the mass of man made