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   <title><![CDATA[The case for sufficiency]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2008/03/unless-planet-learn</link>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>John Naish</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Our planet is doomed unless we learn to limit our consumption.</em></p>

<p>Despite three decades of burgeoning eco-awareness, we are still busy creating and consuming, as well as flying and driving, more than ever before. In response to our eco-fears, all we have done, in effect, is to shift our social rhetoric, create new markets for "green" goods and make gestures at recycling. The problem is that the human brain is instinctively resistant to the kind of self-limitation required if we are  <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2008/03/unless-planet-learn">[...]</a></p>
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