Our World Is Dying Because We Don't Value Un-Making Things

Ending growth for its own sake, producing less, consuming less, paying people to stay home instead of commuting to pointless jobs; all of these would help the ecosystem far more than producing some new battery made of strip-mined materials. But there’s no profit, so they’re overlooked as viable solutions. You’re only ever going to look for solutions to problems through the reality tunnel you’ve been conditioned to look through. For thousands of years human civilization has been valuing the making of more things and devaluing the unmaking of things, when the latter is what we need right now.

Reading by Tim Foley.
Article with sources and hyperlinks: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/our-world-is-dying-because-we-dont

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