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4. That is sickening (quite literally too)
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 10:40 PM
Aug 2023

I purchased and via a Walmart affiliate (yes I get the irony, but well you use chemo to fight cancer don't you ;-/?) a couple of books on degrowth by Kohei Saito and Jason Hickels. It is the first solution I have seen for climate change that makes sense. Hell I support a lot of (typically smaller) industries-vegan food and medicinal plants (weed, psychedelics etc.), mom and pop stores if there are any around these days (it would be so mean not to) and I am at least open-minded to some entertainment as a buffer till we transition to a not sick society where we can entertain ourselves without giant deregulated industries telling us how. For all that in any scientific sense, if we have the sense to see that almost everything is finite, we should see past these moronic infinite growth policies.

The Saito books were so dense that I have not gotten past the first chapter in the first one.

I am surprised that graphic is still up. I would not have thought that that lout who runs Twitter would permit it.

Edit: And most of those nonhuman animals live in those horrifying factory farms while a lot of those humans live in poverty or under stress..a very sensible society the GDP and hyperscale obsessed morons have built for us. Shrug..I reject that style of thinking which is why I am very relaxed these days. Of course we are all bounded by the laws of finiteness one way or another...I do like self organized order over then chaotic, overcrowded world we have..

I support Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans, but a more appropriate term may be Planet of the Slums and Slumlords ;-/.

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