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Their wordsAs I've been writing for years, not only are digital media technologies threatening to consume the planet's resources, but they form the environment of propaganda in which the current course is made to appear all-but-inevitable.
Their wordsDemocracy is not a frictionless, universal phenomenon, but a high-friction, interpersonal, local phenomenon.
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Growth-based capitalism is like a computer program with a resource leak that cannot run forever.
Their wordsLike the Club of Rome explained in the 1970s, the game we're playing is taking up more resources than can be regenerated by the real world. It's a clever game, this growth-based capitalism thing, but it can't be left running forever.
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