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jalan48

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9. I'm buying some things for family, not a lot.

Reply to jalan48 (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 20, 2015, 02:13 PM

Dec 2015

I think our model is the problem. In order for things to be "good" we need to consume and increase consumption every year. It's a basic problem with capitalism. It's a system that requires infinite growth which exists in a finite physical environment. Something has to give and in this case it's the climate.

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