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Greed and Excess Drive The Climate Crisis, So Why Aren’t They Being Questioned? (www.transformatise.com)

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[–] TheRealKuni 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because modern society is driven entirely by greed. It’s the engine that powers capitalism and has pushed it to be the dominant system. Greed and excess (or Gluttony, to be symbolic about it) are intrinsic to our way of life and so we pretend they aren’t as big a problem as they are.

[–] eleitl 1 points 2 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory