In an Oct 12, 2020 article for Responsible Investor entitled "Should ESG view sustainability as a quicksand problem?", Duncan Austin writes about the virtue of inaction in response to environmental destruction: > Stopping – or, more feasibly, just slowing – is the conscious decision to recruit Time as a strategy. Somehow, we need to buy Time in which our natural systems can begin to regenerate after our abrupt advance of the last 200 years. As the saying goes, ‘sometimes you must slow down to let the wind catch up’. ‘Time’ might be the ultimate green consumer product. He uses the metaphor of quicksand to describe the situation we are in. The more we take action to extricate ourselves from our predicament, the more we sink into the quicksand. Therefore, the first thing we must do is simply to STOP.