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			Do you understand how consumerism works? If no-one spends their money on things, they go away. If people stopped consuming the results of industrialisation, it would shrink and possibly die.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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 I have no problem with industrialisation or consummerism as such, both are essential. We just have to be clever about it, now that technology allows it.  | 
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