"But, again, optimism is cruel when the object/scene that ignites a sense of
possibility actually makes it impossible to attain the expansive transforma tion for which a person or a people risks striving; and, doubly, it is cruel insofar as the very pleasures of being inside a relation have become sustaining
regardless of the content of the relation, such that a person or a world finds
itself bound to a situation of profound threat that is, at the same time, profoundly confirming" (p2) - the idea of 'green growth' having to be true/possible (as the alternative is destruction). Emphasis on the economy is the profound threat that we are confirming through 'green'