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The Importance of the Industrial Economy

D growth is a wholistic approach to encouraging reduction in energy consumption and global environmental justice. The human intastructure of extractive capitalism is deep and vast and tightly woven into the structure of every government with any real power. This needs to happen at such a scale that advocating for individual changes in life style will never be enough. A paper on the jevens paradox concluded that sustain ability problems cannot be solved by technological innovations alone. They must be solved through institutional and behaviora changes. If someone's really concerned with waste among the smart phone industry, planned obsolescence is the thing to go after.

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