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The2ndWheel

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2. We've made species extinct or depleted resources before capitalism

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Tue Jul 21, 2015, 10:51 AM

Jul 2015

It's really our cleverness, success, and the like that is at the root. The ability to get around limits. Tool use. Harnessing fire. Farming. The basics. The things that make economics possible.

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