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All this green **** is annoying. The biggest problem is that people have this insistent urge to upgrade to latest and greatest all the time.
Take away incentives to do so and you solve the hyperproduction/hyperconsumption that plagues this world today.
And no going electronic isn't green. But being smart about what you want/need is. Considering the book publishing business with tons of book that then need to get recycled if not sold instead of not making that many initially is a waste.
The world needs to change from hyper to sustainable. And nobody says that sustainable needs to mean not being able to get the same things. Or that prices would increase and so on.
What we need is research that would put us into a post-scarcity future in the fastest amount of time. What does that mean...
Being able to feed every man, woman, child, animal, etc. Being able to educate them all. Being able to produce any physical item on demand see Iain M. Banks The Cultore novels for more of this.
This is what we should be striving for... Not bigger bottom lines and such pointless things.
<brain disconnect>
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