Sublime

What’s crazy is that the US, less than 6 percent of the world’s population, consumes nearly half of the world’s resources, and that the average American consumes as much as 520 Ethiopians do, while obesity is declared a “national health crisis.

For instance, the United States, with 4 percent of the world’s population, generates 25 percent of the pollution that contributes to global warming. According to Geo 2000, a 1999 United Nations environmental report, the excessive consumption by the affluent minority of the earth’s population and the continued poverty of the majority are the two maj

A cultural shift toward a plant-based, whole foods diet would have enormous benefits.

Determined to unshackle market forces from the heavy hand of the state and the millstone of “tax and spend,” the classes that led this bloc aimed to liberalize and globalize the capitalist economy. What that meant, in reality, was financialization: dismantling barriers to, and protections from, the free movement of capital; deregulating banking and

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Property and mastery: nothing else counts. Earth will be monetized until all trees grow in straight lines, three people own all seven continents, and every large organism is bred to be slaughtered.