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Capitalism Can't Solve Climate Change
(time.com)
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Climate change WILL NOT be solved. Monkey brains are never going to be able to break away from consuming. The best we'll be able to do is mitigate it's effects.
We seemed to manage pretty well without rampant consumerism for the first couple of hundred thousand years. Only since capitalist consumerism was invented have people become convinced greed and endless consumption are "just human nature".
Greed and gluttony have been pervasive throughout history. I have no idea why you would think they were recent phenomena.
That was before people had experienced consumerism. It doesn't make sense to compare people existing without knowing of consumerist luxuries to asking people to give them up. Not saying it's hopeless, but it is human nature. It's animal nature. We've just moved ourselves into a world where those advantages have become disadvantages.
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