The Politics of Overconsumption and Getting the Scale Right

Photo caption: Escalators on Beijing subway, China. Photo credit: Lain Masterton / Construction Photography / Avalon / Getty Images. Article by Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen. Common Dreams – September 14, 2022. This essay is adapted from “An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity”.

No matter how difficult the transition may be, in the not too distant future we will have to live in far smaller and more flexible social organizations than today’s nation-states and cities.

Our multiple cascading ecological crises—including, but not limited to, climate disruption—are the product of human overshoot: too many people consuming too much, beyond the capacity of the ecosphere to handle in our time frame. That means job #1 is accepting limits. […]

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