Monday 7 July 2014

Marshall Sahlins - ‘The Original Affluent Society’

"Wants may be “easily satisfied” either by producing much or desiring little."
 
This weeks Green Thought comes from the first page of Marshall Sahlins essay ‘The Original Affluent Society’ in his 1974 insufficiently influential classic book ‘Stone Age Economics’.
Consider in this light the current ‘Energy Crisis’ and the co-crisis of ‘Climate Change’.

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