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"Business is gonna keep pumping as long as consumers are buying, and consumers are gonna keep buying as long as business is pumping."
Policy-makers need to step in and regulate. Leave it in the ground. Stop the drilling.
Unfortunately, doing that doesn't drill down <coughs> sufficiently deeply to root cause.
Grasping for things is rooted in insisting upon a modeling of reality wherein a subject self exists in contrast to all else, which in the context of said subject self is (which as fast as the speed of thinking-it-so quickly becomes "are") necessarily seen/modeled as objects - aka objectified - to be grasped/possessed/owned by said subject self. The grasping is a distorted attempt by subject/self to fill/address the emptiness of its separation with stuff/objects.
There is no legislating around that.
Legislators and the legislated alike must come to see the unreality of that modeling, which initiates its unraveling, which ends the life is but a nightmare, of which capitalism is a significant aspect.
Nov 06 · 7 weeks ago