Editing John Stuart Mill (section)

====The environment====
In Book IV, chapter VI of ''[[Principles of Political Economy]]'': "Of the Stationary State",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/het/mill/book4/bk4ch06|title=''The Principles of Political Economy'', Book 4, Chapter VI|access-date=9 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923234230/http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/het/mill/book4/bk4ch06|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Røpke |first=Inge |date=1 October 2004 |title=The Early History of Modern Ecological Economics |journal=Ecological Economics |volume=50 |issue=3–4 |pages=293–314 |doi=10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.02.012|bibcode=2004EcoEc..50..293R }}</ref> Mill recognised wealth beyond the material and argued that the logical conclusion of unlimited growth was [[Environmental effects of economic growth|destruction of the environment]] and a reduced quality of life. He concluded that a [[Steady-state economy|stationary state]] could be preferable to unending [[economic growth]]:

<blockquote>I cannot, therefore, regard the stationary states of capital and wealth with the unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school.</blockquote>

<blockquote>If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a better or a happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compel them to it.</blockquote>