Sufficiency is a new approach to solving humanity’s consumption problems. It’s about using less, ensuring wellbeing for all humans, and staying within planetary boundaries.

Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis.

    • eleitl@lemm.eeM
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      2 months ago

      Don’t forget sexual selection for conspicous consumption and social status, plus evolutionary winner-takes-it-all. Capitalism is also a system driven by darwinian-like evolutionary processes.

    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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      2 months ago

      Yep, that’s literally the whole point of capitalism, always more. Infinite growth in a finite system is impossible. And despite what some people are saying, we’re definitely not in the part where exiting our finite system is viable.