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Jul 2Liked by M L Clark

it's always time to shear the sheep in some part of the world, isn't it? great assets, going cheap. our turn was 2007, of course. relentless concentration of power and wealth to the elites has to give at some point. one would hope …

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As you so compellingly and painstakingly point out (a word my brain has habitually cleaved into “ pain-staking” rather than the correct “ pains-taking”), that goddam test is not going well, and it is not going to go well.

Humanity did not, cannot, and will not get off the “treadmill of production” that Schnaiberg/Gould delineated (albeit with copious 60s style We-Shall-Overcome hopium) in their Environment and Society books of the early 90s.

And that’s where I’m staking my pain of the world.

The light of the world? People that know this shit.

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