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Re:My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal col... by headmelted on Friday July 16, 2021 @08:32AM (#27855571)
In order for the human population to "live within it's means" at an impactful scale it would require a change of capitalist philosophy that quite obviously isn't going to change anytime soon.

Yes.

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Re:My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal col... by headmelted on Sunday July 18, 2021 @03:04AM (#27871224)
To add to this, just doing away with capitalism does not solve this problem, and creates myriad others.

Absolutely the scale of the problem is unprecedented though, but that message hasn’t changed in 50 years.

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