# William Irwin Thompson on Sustainability

> We need to transform our civilization, not simply extend it.

— William Irwin Thompson


If the space colonies are sold to the American public as a way of escaping the juggernaut of apocalypse, of escaping the internal contradictions of our industrial civilization, and of not having to face those contradictions but simply to extend, extend, extend always to a new American frontier, then I think we will overextend ourselves to a point of a deserved collapse.

**Tags:** ethics, technology, science, evolution, transhumanism, sustainability, space colonization