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Today I was reading the transcript of “The Great Simplification”, a video about the hard times we will face due to overshooting Earth’s boundaries.

https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/animations

I was struck by this analogy:

“Like a shark needing to swim to get oxygen flowing through its gills, our current economic system has an imperative to grow in order to satisfy prior financial commitments. We can’t stop nor can we slow down or the system will crash.”

Our problem in a nutshell.