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> everything you own was produced and transported by using natural resources and energy,

True.

But natural resources and energy are both effectively infinite.

Further, just because an item USED these things does not mean that it WASTED these things.

A lot of the minimalist aesthetic is about minimizing the use of things that, objectively, there's no particular reason to minimize the use of.




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