It is worth remembering that civilisation persists by unacknowledged permission of the planetary systems that sustain it.
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System Failure
In a globally integrated system there is nowhere for costs to go. Automation and scale do not eliminate thermodynamic, material, or social costs; they only displace them within the same closed system. This is critically unsustainable because continued growth depends on offloading costs that can no longer be externalised, forcing the system to consume its […]
