'We simply can’t continue consuming in the same way we have been for the past hundred years or so.'
, are clearly better than wasting the valuable, concentrated stores that have taken more than 300 million years to form. But unlike solar radiation, coal, oil and gas can be"commodities." Under our human systems, someone can"own" these and exploit, trade, sell and profit from them. As profit and wealth concentration became primary drivers of economic agendas in the industrialized world, rampant exploitation and waste became the norm, rather than careful and beneficial use.
For a time, it worked like a dream—the American Dream perhaps—increased prosperity and mobility, shopping malls, drive-throughs, suburbs, middle class jobs, a wide variety of food and products and consumerism as a virtue. We can see now that we've been borrowing from the future to pay for our excessive lifestyles, and the bill has come due.
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