All of these seek to alleviate the situation without making any uncomfortable change in the core values or structure of existing society. If we had a society whose core values were to preserve and aid the earth, then all of the other values of society would flow consistently from that. In many important ways civilization functions in an addictive fashion. The addict denies that there is a problem. The addict engages in the denial of reality.
Civilization is addicted in the same way.
The civilized people believe they have an obligation to bring primitive and underdeveloped people up to their level. Civilization, which is about to self-destruct, thinks of itself as the superior culture that has answers for all the world's people. If the object of dependency is removed, addicts will experience insecurity, discomfort, distress, the symptoms of withdrawal. The size of this delusion is such that the combined military expenditures of all the world's governments in 1987 were so large that all of the social programs of the United Nations could be financed for three hundred years by this expenditure. Looking back at the simple principle which says that humans cannot live on this planet unless they can maintain the topsoil, demonstrates the delusion.