We have offshored the problem of escalating consumption, and our perceptions of it, by considering only territorial emissions
Every society has topics it does not discuss. These are the issues which challenge its comfortable assumptions. They are the ones that remind us of mortality, which threaten the continuity we anticipate, which expose our various beliefs as irreconcilable.
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