
Simon Michaux: "The Arcadians"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Environmental Movement and the Mining Industry Will Meet the Other Halfway
We need to put everything on the table at the same time and discuss what is sensible. There's a massive paper industry in Finland, why do we need such a large paper industry? And there's a few screams of pain around that when you start saying, well maybe we should shrink that then. Things like the plastics industry can be replaced with bioplastics in some respects. But if we're already harvesting too much out of the environment, what is truly sustainable? We need everyone to get the same table because that thing can only be used for one output.
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