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Old 07-29-2019, 01:35 PM   #6303 (permalink)
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Humanity will never choose "simple" on a large scale, or for long periods of time. Simplification would be a social fad, not something integrated into the DNA of our being.

Of course, we can't consume what doesn't exist. To that end, simplification may not be a choice, but then again I don't think it ever was.
We would choose simplification if we were truly sapient and woke to the reality of limits to growth on a finite planet. If we don't or can't it will be forced on us unwillingly eventually in an uncontrolled manor as the resources that allowed this "Great Acceleration" inevitably slip away.
 
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