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I know that using the 'c' word is very off-putting for some people, but it's important to recognise that capitalism is preparing to consume an ecosystem-destroying one trillion tons of material in the 2020s thereby killing us all.
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'The climate and wildlife emergencies are driven by the unsustainable extraction of fossil fuels, metals, building materials, and trees. The report’s authors warn that treating the world’s resources as limitless is leading towards global disaster.'
e360.yale.edu/digest/world-c…
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'Here’s the magic number: 50 billion tons. That’s how much of the Earth’s materials and life forms we can safely use each year. That includes everything from wood to plastic, fish to livestock, minerals to metals: all the physical stuff that we consume'fastcompany.com/40548564/bette…
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