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rhett o rick

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20. Capitalism is not sustainable. It needs "growth" to continue, in fact it needs accelerating

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Sun May 15, 2016, 09:50 AM

May 2016

"growth". It's a giant Ponzi scheme that relies on none replenishable energy from our environment. Even if we harnessed solar polar the capitalists would just use it to exploit the earth faster.

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