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/A global growth economy based on cheap and abundant fossil fuels to
both grow and transport our food thousands of miles, and to supply the
raw materials for the cheap plastic throwaway goods we've come to rely
on, is quickly drawing to a close. We are not going to see an economic
recovery, because we are not in a recession. *We are at the end of an
historic period in human civilization.* This period is drawing to a
close as the logical consequence of abusing and misusing our planet as
both an endless supply of resources and a bottomless pit for waste./
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