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Re:50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn ... by Schroedingersat on Thursday September 01, 2022 @10:48PM (#32686020)
And yet the basic tenets of security (shelter, access to transport, simple healthcare, nutrition) require an ever growing amount of labour for the majority of population.

Having rich people move to throwing away two phones a year and driving around 9 tonne electric SUVs only means there's more pollution to deal with. It doesn't make the lives of the majority better.

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Re:50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn ... by bmismyname on Thursday September 01, 2022 @10:57PM (#32686076)
Plus most of the "innovation" in the west involved outsourcing all the manufacturing and pollution to places with cheap labour and lax environmental and labour laws.
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