The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 2nd July 2017
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With elections coming and the flow of reductionist shit is let loose to foul thinking and discourse, it is time to widen horizons and look beyond all the crap to a future we cannot avoid.
Managing the future by getting off the idea of “economies are based on consumption”. Some proffer that it is axiomatic but those miscreants are the problem. More and more and more is not possible nor desirable.
We are not getting more humanity but more poverty and hardship as consumption changes society and the future world, for the worse.
A real perspective
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/writers/audio/2541235/chandran-nair-consumptionomics