More Is Never Enough 9Whether we awake and start running like the gazelle and the lion or
believe that money equals food, we are still bound to the environment.
When always wanting more dominates our outlook, always having more
becomes the solution for never seeing the value in living with less. The
more that food is valued based on abundance, the less food can remind
us of our reliance on other species, nature, and the environment. When
this happens, the memory of how our ancestors once survived, while
perhaps still interesting, no longer seems relevant.
Without memory, we live naively in the present. We believe we can
always have more. We assume that resources like land and water will
always provide more. Yet all our resources come from a single planet.
By definition, they are limited. As we will see in the next chapter,
ready access to resources stokes our belief in an infinite supply of finite
resources.