Peter Whybrow: “When More is Not Enough”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Proximate Isn't Really Food
In order to stay alive, we need a certain number of things, and that is why e were so successful. The trouble is that we always had the environment to constrain us. We don't have that any more in modern capitalist society. By polluting the earth, we're polluting our bodies. Americans are now shorter than they were, on average, just two decades ago,. That's because they're not as healthy. I didn't know that. ihave nothing against capitalism. It's brought us to a wonderful position in many ways. But we've got to learn how to constrain things. And most people who have some money in the bank suddenly, fi not in the
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