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How to make sustainable choices in everyday life
Identifying ways to reduce waste and conserve resources
Understanding the impact of human actions on the environment
Throughout history, societies have suffered from two kinds of poverty:
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The state and the market approached people with an offer that could not be refused. ‘Become individuals,’ they said.
"Marry whomever you desire, without asking permission from your parents. Live wherever you wish, even if you cannot make it every week to the family dinner. You are no longer...
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“I encourage all of us, whatever our beliefs, to question the basic narratives of our world, to connect past developments with present concerns and not to be afraid of controversial issues"
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"Humans emerge from the womb like molten glass from a furnace.
They can be spun, stretched and shaped with a surprising degree of freedom.
This is why today we can educate our children to b...
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"Fire give us power
Farming made us hungry for more
Money gave us purpose
Science made us deadly"
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One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can’t live without it.
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Napoleon made fun of the British, calling them a nation of shopkeepers. Yet these shopkeepers defeated Napoleon himself...
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People pursue wealth and power, acquire knowledge and possessions, beget sons and daughters, and build houses and palaces. Yet no matter what they achieve, they are never content. Everything that one has accumulated vanishes like smoke. Life is a pointless rat race.
But how to escape it?
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A Myths and fictions accustomed people, nearly from the moment of birth, to think in certain ways, to behave in accordance with certain standards, to want certain things, and to observe certain rules. They thereby created artificial instincts that enabled millions of strangers to cooperate effect...
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