Tag: consumption
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Lawns and lost energy
Originally published by Ecocore. Neo-liberal capitalism seldom accounts for the energy spent in pursuit of useless aesthetics. By useless, I mean items and activities that lead to environmental degradation without providing much social and public value. Capitalism allows your desires to be pursued without a need to justify them. The freedom it provides is built…
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The Nordic Model
Norway is considered a social-democratic state with fewer economic differences among its citizens. With a high Gini coefficient of 27.7, it would seem like this is an applicable model for other countries to replicate. While the saying “Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor” cannot be applied inside Norway, the term describes Norway…
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Undoing nihilism
Neo-liberal capitalism is nihilist at its core. That’s not news. Its global extraction and built-in exponential growth through GDP will eventually turn the earth into nothing. Neo-liberal capitalism rejects value-based judgement and destroys the life-creating potential of humans and nature. It eliminates the cycle of death you find in nature; nature’s death is life-generating through…