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We’re going to clear-cut these forests and go to Saudi Arabia and build a totally self-sustaining eco-city called NEOM for trillions of dollars. It’s going to be completely sustainable, if only we could get these 40,000 Bedouins off this territory who’ve been here living sustainably for the last 10,000 years. They’re the one obstacle to our sustainable future, these sustainable indigenous people!”

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It’s not our job to service the economy, it’s the economy’s job to service us

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if an exponential growth based economy turns out to not be compatible with life, as there’s nothing that grows exponentially in nature—except cancer, which kills its host—if we realize that then we remake an economy that serves human beings.

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