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The high price of materialism

By Eric Krasnauskas | August 23, 2013

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A war on climate change is a war on materialism, plain and simple. The carbon pollution spewing out of our power plants and tail pipes is a natural byproduct of the monstrous engine of economic growth we have built, an engine that exists solely to satisfy the demand our materialism creates. Indeed this demand is so great that if everyone in the world lived like Americans, we'd … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: conumserism, happiness, overshoot, peak oil, video

If you’re not overwhelmed, something’s wrong with you

By Erik Curren | August 16, 2011

It's all good illustration

"The shock, the anger, the sense of overwhelm are all understandable," says psychotherapist Kathy McMahon of the moment when someone first hears about peak oil and gets how scary it can be. McMahon, who practices therapy in Northhampton, MA as the "Peak Shrink," thinks that society needs to normalize the anxiety that people feel about ecological overshoot so that more people … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: Candide, futurology, Gottfried Leibniz, Kathy McMahon, Laurence Gonzales, overshoot, Peak Moment TV, Voltaire

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