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Clean energy might help deal with emissions, but it does nothing to reverse deforestation, overfishing, soil depletion and mass extinction. A growth-obsessed economy powered by clean energy will still tip us into ecological disaster.
“advertising, which stimulates an artificial sense of lack; a sense that something is literally missing. Ads create the impression that we are not beautiful enough, or masculine enough, or stylish enough.”
― Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
― Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
“Nothing exists alone. Individuality is an illusion.”
― Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
― Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
“you can provoke people to consume far beyond their needs simply by manipulating their psychology. You can seed anxiety in people’s minds, and then present your product as a solution to that anxiety. Or you can sell things on the promise that they will provide social acceptance, or class distinction, or sexual prowess. This kind of advertising quickly became indispensable to American companies desperate to generate growing demand.”
― Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
― Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
“we have co-evolved with trees for millions of years. We even share DNA with trees. After countless generations, we’ve come to depend on them for our health and happiness just as we depend on other humans. We are, in a very real sense, relatives.”
― Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
― Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
“During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the height of the British Empire, 30 million Indians perished needlessly of famine in what the historian Mike Davis has called the ‘Late Victorian Holocausts’. Needlessly, because even at the peak of the famine there was a net surplus of food. In fact, Indian grain exports more than tripled during this period, from 3 million tons in 1875 to 10 million tons in 1900.”
― Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
― Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
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