One way to look at the moral failures of this era is to see that they’re perversions of the desire to produce more. The great mistakes we made were to force people to become part of the machinery of production (slavery and child labor), to take their land and resources and use them as inputs (colonialism), to use animals as inputs so wantonly that we wiped them out or nearly did, and to pay too little attention to the terrible pollution generated as a side effect of industrial production.
