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That's a good way of putting it. I think that some tech-competitive or modern-conservative people are turned off by the eco-friendly prose you wrote there, but there is simply no denying it- there is trash everywhere and species are dying off within lifetimes. I just watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi and even he remembers when the fish were higher quality and quantity at the market. Unfortunately, there is no money in letting unfished tuna schools run amok, there's no money in restoring the Great Barrier Reef, there's no money in not flying to Hawaii for vacation.

And those are just the flashy ones- there's no money in wild birds, bugs, waterways, air quality, plants, nature.

Do people value the wild and getting through each day in a pure, healthy environment, or do they value efficiency for the sake of itself?




It's also a type of fake efficiency. The vegetables we grow have less nutrition in them, the technology is not built to last, products get thrown in the trash without being used and people are drained by their work instead of satisfied. We're doing something wrong, I don't know the solution but ideology seems to be clouding us from seeing the problems in the first place.




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