During the Industrial Revolution and not until too long ago people have had the mentality that the resources that we are depleting are in abundance not needing to worry about the limits they may have. That nature is always replenishing itself through its natural systems and that we are of no impact. We now know that this is surely not the case. We are depleting resources at a rate much faster than nature can replenish them and are quickly reaching are limit to growth. In “The Myth of Progress” the author Tom Wessel’s approaches this problem through scientific explanation of the three “laws of sustainability,” The law of limits to growth, the second law of thermodynamics, and the law of self-organization in complex systems. Wessel’s give a prime example of limits to growth during World War II with the introduction of twenty-nine reindeer to the island of St Matthew north of the Aleutians. These twenty-nine reindeer where introduced to this island as means to supply meat for the nineteen men stationed there. When the war was over, the men stations on St Matthews Island soon departed for their homes leaving the reindeer uncontrolled with no predators. The reindeer flourished for the first few decades with population growths growing massively. Soon the reindeer’s population exceeded its carrying capacity and thus depleted all of the necessary resources that where once abundantly available. Consequently the reindeer no longer had the resources to survive and sustain life. I believe that we are quickly reaching our limit to growth as well. Our resources are growing smaller as our waste is growing larger. There needs to be serious change in the way we expend energy, use resources, and created products to reverse this effect. Wessel details some of the ways to support many of these new ideas that can be executed on an individual bases or as a whole community to lessen one’s ecological footprint. I believe that we are currently moving in a direction that will fail miserably because it isn’t based on sustainability. Instead of dealing with these problems re-actively we should be dealing with these problems pro-actively before they have a greater effect to the health and wellness of our planet. It is usually much easier to prevent a problem rather than trying to fix a problem that has manifested through being ignored for so long.