Sentences with phrase «crude numerical growth»

As Edward Abbey pointed out two decades ago, «It should be clear to everyone by now that crude numerical growth does not solve our chronic problems of unemployment, welfare, crime, traffic, filth, noise, squalor, the pollution of our air, the corruption of our politics, the debasement of the school system (hardly worthy of the name «education»), and the general loss of popular control over the political process — where money, not people, is now the determining factor.»