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The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less: The degrowth movement wants to shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being. (www.vice.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Human nature is sculpted and shaped by the material conditions around you, it's not something immutable and forever the same.

If a society is built around endless accumulation then of course it would be considered only natural to most.

After all, if you were born and lived your whole life in a coal mine, you'd say it's human nature to cough.