Martin Tye
@martinrev21
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Sometime a picture really is worth 1,000 words.
I've got nothing to add here...
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Largest ghost gum in Australia. Central Northern Territory.
300 years old.
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Feed them, house them in small boxes, send them off to work-
consume their wages on the small boxes & food, water, power. Build a stadium to distract them.
Privatise the whole system, capture government & media, then sell the whole idea as 'economic growth'.
Which country am I?
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Never extract more than ecosystems can regenerate.
Never waste or pollute more than ecosystems can safely absorb.
The idea of "earth system boundaries" does not exist in modern economic theory
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Just drove home listening to the news-
It was all about GDP & economic growth.
Growth this, growth that, this threatens growth, that is needed to sustain growth, this will be good for growth, how do we increase growth, more growth!
... have we gone collectively insane?
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No single generation in the
#history
of the earth has ever borne witness to so much ecological carnage in one lifetime,
.. yet most still refuse to acknowledge the need for system change- instead believing they can manage the current one.
#Degrowth4Regrowth
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A
#Degrowth
clarification
Degrowth is an economics term for a careful, planned & coordinated downsizing in the scale & impact of the human economy
To be distinguished from the chaotic collapse of an economic system that thought it could grow forever
... 2 very different things
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Can you help me work something out?
Our older style suburb has lots of
#birds
.
Our friends in the new sub-division have virtually none.
... I can't figure out why.
#RedefiningGrowth
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Sometimes I wonder, does the rest of the world really share my love of nature,
& sadness at watching it's demise.
Am I fighting a battle no one else cares about?🐸
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The idea of living on a planet where nothing else seems to matter other than "growing the human economy",
..and where corporates seem to be succeeding in greenwashing the whole nasty, short-sighted, profit driven process,
makes me sick to the stomach.
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As they say- everything's fine.. until it isn't.
@ECOWARRIORSS
We’re in “oops” stage. People don’t seem to realize we are quite literally racing towards the end of humanity- and this is not hyperbole. We need to be discussing this daily.
#DontLookUp
#ClimateEmergency
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Really struggling today with the enormity of convincing people that we are at unsustainable scale & need
#degrowth
on a huge level to survive.
Everyone so wedded to growth & willing to believe economic growth & sustainability can co-exist.
... I don't know what more I can do.
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Funny how (for those of us old enough to remember) that back in the 70s/80s/90s, with a much smaller
#population
:
we had no skills shortage, affordable housing, more nature, less crowded roads/hospitals, lower emissions & a generally better quality of life 🤔
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Things getting scary here as
#AUSTRALIANBUSHFIRES
close in- skies darkening, air thick with smoke & ash raining down.
It's one thing knowing about
#climatechange
,
.... it's another thing experiencing it.
This is horrendous & is only the beginning
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In
#Australia
we've been told for 20yrs that huge
#population
increases are 'good for the economy'.
All I've seen is traffic, homelessness, healthcare crisis, wage suppression, cost of living increases & ecological degradation.
... makes me want to ask "Who's economy?"
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I was wondering-
If
@ScottMorrisonMP
wasn't a politician what else would he do?
The way he's running this country down- I certainly wouldn't want him managing my business.
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This morning I headed out to a secret location where ancient tree ferns were dying due to unprecedented drought-
My plan was to water as many as possible.
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#Collapse
is a process which starts slowly then quickly gathers momentum as chain reactions kick in.
At a certain point it becomes unstoppable.
How close to that "certain point" do you think we are?
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I'll try to make this as personal as possible;
The
#ClimateCrisis
threatens your family's
#food
supply- drought, crop failures, supply chain failures,
You won't be asking "What will we have for dinner tonight?'
You will be asking "Will we have dinner tonight?"
#Hunger
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Fly over
#Australia
in a window seat and for hours you see little but cultivated farmlands.
Literally hundreds of thousands of square kilometers where
#nature
has been almost entirely obliterated in order to feed our ever-expanding
#population
.
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I consider myself deeply spiritual.
My source is
#nature
That's why to me, this is a
#Holocaust
,
.. & they are the innocent victims.
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The earth is 4.5 billion years old.
In all that time, there has never been a worse, more destructive idea than the idea of endless economic growth, guided by the GDP figure.
Never!
#Degrowth
- unwinding the damage.
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I find it odd that so many world leaders are
#religious
(which is supposed to be about our souls),
... yet their policies are all about
#money
(which is about materialism & consumption).
Can someone please explain?
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Anyone else get the feeling,
... that they are being farmed?
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There's only one way out of this mess-
it's
#degrowth
and a whole new economic paradigm (not founded on endless "growth" & measured by GDP)
Problem is, how do you get people to see beyond the world they've always known, to see the need for fundamental change-- & embrace it?
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Could there be more to being human,
... than growing the economy?
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Yet another stand of trees coming down now in my home
#Broulee
for a housing estate.
This is the ecological reality of
#population
growth in Australia today.
Am I NIMBY?
When it comes to saving my trees- You bloody bet I am!
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Economic growth is one big illusion.
You are only shown the benefits, the costs remain hidden.
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We have to stop calling housing estates "developments".
They are not that.
They are ecologically devastating short sighted cash grabs by greed driven interests who care nothing for land, people or future.
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You do understand that the sixth mass extinction, could include us, don't you?
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I've spent my whole life watching the human population expanding (+5.3 billion) and nature disappearing.
That's bad enough, but then to have to suffer the fools who say the two are unrelated,
... well that's just salt in the wounds.
#ignorance
#denial
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Aren't we supposed to be an intelligent species,
capable of understanding the longer term consequences of our actions?
So why are we behaving like cancer cells?
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Why do we bother having politicians?
Why not just put the corporate interests dictating policy directly into power and remove the illusion of democracy?
.. at least that would be more honest.
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Lyrebird
In an Aboriginal Dreaming story, Lyrebird is given the role of the peacemaker in the first great dispute between all creatures: As a reward, the Spirits gave Lyrebird the ability to be the only animal able to communicate to all other animals.
Know & ❤️ your
#wildlife
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Has anyone else noticed...
that when it comes to managing the earth's resources,
"economic growth" is all about short term exploitation for short term profit, for an "in crowd"?
& nothing about leaving anything long term for our children or for nature? 🤔
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Australia's economic plan-
Use mass immigration to swell the population to boost the GDP figure to create the illusion of "growth".
Ignore all the other economic, social & ecological indicators which suggest this agenda is driving us backwards.
Have I got this right?
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Beware this graphic- sorry to say, carbon tunnel vision is all too prevalent!
Recognition of the far broader set of problems, will hopefully generate a far broader set of responses.
Our dire situation demands an holistic/systemic approach... not band-aids.
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Australia has had 20+ yrs of economic growth,
To achieve this we’ve destroyed; ecosystems, the livability of our cities & first home ownership, created a massive infrastructure deficit, run up debt, sold off assets & strained our water supplies... sustainable?
#RedefiningGrowth
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Signing off for now-
...just received an
#AUSTRALIANBUSHFIRES
evacuation warning.
Looks like we've got to get out.
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It seems there are two types of people:
Those who feel pain every time a
#Tree
comes down,
… & those who are pleased to see "progress", "development" & "economic growth".
Which are you?
#ecology
#environment
#life
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Feeling pretty lonely today
most of the wild creatures I grew up with, including the far off ones which I knew were there but never saw, are now either gone, or greatly reduced & on the decline
Sort of like losing your family
Oh well, I suppose we've still got economic growth
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I cannot even walk past an area bulldozed for the latest property sub-division,
...without feeling a pain in my heart for all the trees lying dead in piles,
Are you the same?
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This is what happens when ecological illiterates are voted into power.
Doesn't the fool understand that hazard reductions burns are very dangerous during severe droughts?
... of course not, the only time he enters the bush is for a quick photo opp. with sleeves rolled up.
The Prime Minister has called for a national standard for hazard reduction in bushfire zones in the wake of the bushfire crisis.
@olivialeeming
#auspol
#7NEWS
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I have found my spiritual path & it is founded on
#nature
.
But every day I must watch on, as it mined, cut down, dammed, burned, poisoned, eroded, concreted & otherwise exploited for short term profits,
... under an ideology branded
#EconomicGrowth
& measured in by GDP.
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The worst thing the human race ever did-
was to embrace GDP growth as a measure of progress, & responsible economic/land management.
It has become our pied piper of doom, yet still we dance to it's tune... like good little followers.
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Returning from my outback trip I was shocked at the extent of
#landclearing
in western
#NSW
I actually witnessed the
#soil
being stripped from barren fields- in places the dust storm was equal to a very thick fog.
It's one thing reading about it- totally different seeing it. 😠
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The great unmentioned cost of
#AustraliaBurning
is the
#spiritual
cost.
We all draw strength directly from the natural world, rather than, or as well as a religion... whether we realise this or not.
This loss is unmeasurable & certainly not reflected in a hollow
#GDP
figure.
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What on earth is wrong with a stable/declining population?
A greater share of resources per capita,
... and your environment will love you for it!
Shed the corporate "growth" at all costs mindset.
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Very angry (but not surprised) just found out our local "developer" illegally bulldozed our last stand of old growth forest gazetted as community land,
... more news coming.
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Just bizarre to me how readily the public accept the notion that we can base an economy on growing the
#population
, building houses for each other, filling them with
#consumables
,
& still somehow become truly ecologically sustainable.
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How many people still believe an economy can grow forever... on a finite planet?
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I'm just starting to realise how many people think I'm crazy,
.. because I don't believe in the fantasy of endless growth--- on a finite planet.
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Just before the Roman empire collapsed,
the ultra wealthy, became far wealthier,
... than they had ever been before.
Sound familiar?
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I'm taking a break & going surfing to try to recover some positivity,
... because right now I just cannot see people abandoning the idea of endless growth until after it consumes the planet & collapse/chaos ensues.
I'm sick of pointing out the bleeding obvious- We need
#Degrowth
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How did expanding the "economy",
... become the number 1 priority of the human race?
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I think I'll give my campaign maybe 1 more year.
If I haven't seen a serious groundswell for fundamental change away from population/economic expansionism toward a more steady/stable state, it'll be too late.
So I'll just go sit somewhere & watch the world reap what it has sewn
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#Trees
lower air temperature by creating shade & by evaporating
#water
in their leaves- essentially acting as the earth's air conditioners.
Unfortunately though, this service is performed free of charge, & so adds nothing to our
#GDP
/Economic Growth figure.
#RedefiningGrowth
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The standard response I still get to
#Degrowth
is "That would be bad for the economy",
... not "That would be great for the environment."
Therein lies our problem.
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Evacuated again, hard to leave your home not knowing if it will be there when you return.
#AustraliaBurning
.
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We are cashing in our
#biosphere
, a wondrous thing, billions of years in the making,
... just to fuel a few shallow decades of
#EconomicGrowth
.
A crime of unimaginable proportions.
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The predictable human response to
#AustraliaBurning
has begun-
Out come the chainsaws, down come the
#trees
.
What the fires left, we will destroy... I was afraid of this.
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"Waterbird population has fallen as much as 90% in Australia's east, shows 37-year study"
Yet current generations never knew that richer, more bio-diverse world, & so don't miss it.
Life in a degrading world works that way.
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Even those who see themselves as environmentally aware-
seem blind to the devastating ecological toll directly tied to the human
#population
explosion over the last 70 years.
+5.5 billion in less than one lifetime & yet strongly denied as a negative ecological force 🤔
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"Human-free" zones.
Now that's a future I'd support-
Not only will that make life better for humans, but it would honour our moral responsibility toward other life:
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When will a planetary state of emergency be declared?
... one which recognises that there is so much more than a
#ClimateCrisis
going on?
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The ugliest, most cold hearted, impersonal, ecologically destructive idea in the world today,
... is "economic growth".
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I hate getting drawn into the
#population
issue- it's so obvious that the addition of over 5 billion to the planet in my lifetime has had an horrendous impact on people & ecosystems.
Yet here I am daily dealing with those who claim this is irrelevant & that I must be racist.
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Now, as we pour the last of earth's resources into our futile bid to sustain "economic growth" for just a few more years, it might be a good time to ask:
"Was it all worth it?"
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What sort of
#society
are we?
.. that we allow some some to accumulate multiple houses, while other have nowhere to live?
Time we took a good look at ourselves.
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We've been attempting to "do" environmentalism in the context of economic growth for a great many decades now,
... how's it working out?
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I don't understand our obsession with growth. Even in my youth, I had an innate sense that humanity couldn't keep growing forever. But for many, to even question growth is unthinkable: to do so is considered quite mad-
Belief in endless growth is like a kink in the human brain.
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There is nothing about
#population
expansionism that's making my life better,
more traffic, more crowds, longer wait times for the doctor, more rates, more restrictions on personal freedoms, more noise, more stress
... and less nature.
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The difference between robbing the environment & robbing a bank to achieve short term wealth,
... is that there is always another bank.
#economy
#environment
#balance
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I think we are all about to pay the price for believing that we could pursue endless growth,
.. based on resource depletion, ecological plunder, overpopulation & wasteful excessive consumption.
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Some of us are old enough to remember the ecologically rich world of yesterday.
No, young people, your land was not always like this, this is not normal.
The nature you see today is a mere shadow of even 50-70 years ago,
.. & still it declines in the name of economic "growth".
@martinrev21
@ECOWARRIORSS
I grew up with huge flocks! Eating outside was impossible because of bird droppings!! They filled the skies! Not any more & we are to blame for every single loss!
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Can I be a "lefty" and still discuss
#overpopulation
?
.. or does that rule me out of the club?
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Am I NIMBY?
A huge housing estate has quadrupled the size of our village.
Now I have 4X the traffic, it's no longer pleasant to sit outside in the morning due to noise & our bushland is gone...
Population expansionism is of no benefit to me.
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What does it say about
#Australia
when our most successful business people seem to be Real Estate agents, money lenders & property speculators?
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Today I've been called a "left-wing greenie extremist" by a right winger,
& an "eco-fascist" by a left winger.. & it's not even 7am yet!
Is there a tougher gig than selling
#degrowth
?
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Australia had an immigration intake of 600,000 last year, & millions over the last decade.
Yet we still hear that we lack workers to do work that Aussies won’t do.
So, the more we bring in, the more work there is, that Aussies won't do?
I smell a corporate wage conspiracy.
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Just found out these shocking Australian figures-
'620,000 international students from Jan-July that were let in.
We currently have 1 million foreign students in the country'
1 million tapping into our housing, our infrastructure, our resources & ecosystems?
Is this true?
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If you were sitting in this chair, and you could see a train coming,
... would you not get out of the chair because you were so comfortable?
#ClimateChange
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This is great... just the calculation I've been looking for.
... Can you imagine if our property developers had to factor this in every time a new sub-division was inserted into our landscape?
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Economic growth is NOT a journey to some promised land-
It is a permanent, on-going state of debt, wage slavery, disenfranchisement & ecological decline,
… with the sole purpose of channelling wealth into capital controlled markets geared to greater wealth for the few.
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Believe it or not, we are not the only species who cares for their children,
... & wants them to have a future.
End the
#greed
--- Let's share this world!
#AnimalRights
#wildlife
#humanitywithheart
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No one is pretending
#degrowth
will be easy,
... but everyone seems to be pretending endless growth is possible.
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I am furious-
that this government kept their plan to massively increase immigration/population a secret pre-election.
This is a massive policy impacting housing/healthcare/biodiversity/infrastructure.. just about everything.
Silence, on something this big is as good as a lie.
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Do they not get how serious this is?
I say to people "This system will destroy our planet"
"Yes I know, terrible isn't it" they respond,
... then wander off, buy a latte & talk about the footy.
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This begins with the Borneo I remember as a kid, learning about the exotic wilds of our planet.
.. similar story in Africa, the Amazon and many other places.
Pretty F**kd hey?
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WTF are our politicians doing to this country?
2.2% population growth rate is now up there with Africa's third world growth rate of 2.3%, and more than triple the oecd average of 0.6%.
Criminals running our governments and immigration policies.
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Destroy nature and we destroy our spirit,
.. leaving nothing but an empty void which we attempt to fill with soap operas, football stadiums, on-line games and consumer goods.
Never in the 600M year history of complex life on Earth has a species perpetuated a murder/suicide……until now.
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It seems to me we are all too busy surviving in the system, to challenge the system.
#Degrowth4Regrowth
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