The industrial or capitalist definition of wealth has always been about the accumulation of money and matter. Any use values generated (le social needs met) have been secondary
a side effect, by-product, spin-off, or trickle-down-to the primary
goal of monetary accumulation. For two centuries, the quest to accumulate money or capital drove a powerful industrialization
process that actually did spin off many human benefits, however untairly distributed. But blind material and monetary growth
has reached a threshold where it is generating more destruction than real wealth. A post-industrial world requires an
economics of quality, where both money and matter are returned to a status of means to an end. Green economics means a
direct focus on meeting human and environmental needs.
Read the passage above and identify the signal words and clues that indicate a cause and effect relationship,