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Environment & Energy

Envirogal

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2. Humanity's unrestrained pillaging

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Tue Sep 17, 2024, 12:24 PM

Sep 2024

Too many people, buying too much crap they don’t need while our natural resources are stretched beyond their limits by the greed of industry and the consumers. Yet the economy depends on it. That is a recipe for collapse.

Just the cardboard boxes alone from online shopping used ONE TIME is a canary in the coal shaft of the strain we are putting on all of our eco systems.

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