I realize I’m preaching to the choir a bit here, but I always thought about the economy as a bunch of objects and things that people are doing with them, but I just realized that actually, growth of the economy will always somehow impact the environment (not always necessarily to its detriment though). It really is a zero sum game and I was making a mistake of not always thinking about the two in concert.

  • moreeni@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    Wait until you realise the environment is not the only thing that is heavily influenced by the economy. It is humans for who are for the most part are responsible for the recent changes in Earth’s climate and human society is all about the economy. Let me introduce you to historical materialism, something Friedrich Engels described as:

    that view of the course of history which seeks the ultimate cause and the great moving power of all important historic events in the economic development of society, in the changes in the modes of production and exchange, in the consequent division of society into distinct classes, and in the struggles of these classes against one another.