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The purpose of economic activity is to serve human needs in the short, medium & long term. For governments and populations to make 'the economy' (of whatever kind) their ultimate goal is either idolatry, slavery or stupidity - and very probably all three.

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New definition of Anthropocene: the year we found out we WEREN’T in charge.

Finishing Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything. Passionate and well-written of course, but so short on solutions beyond "if only we were in charge, it would be fine". Starts off with "What's wrong with us?" (P.15&18) but then spends 500 pages saying what's wrong with THEM. We need better.

The move to ‘green’/‘sustainable’ technology is no use if our energy and resource demands continue to be neither. If the introduction of energy-guzzling AI tells us anything, it is that solving climate change requires accurately diagnosing the cause of humanity’s chronic addiction to energy.

Just finished re-reading Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, thirty five years after first reading it as an undergrad. What felt edgy and polemicist back then simply feels terrifying now. How do we let this many decades pass in indifference?