Comments on: The Left’s Fear of Resource Depletion http://afcmin.org/ateam/1524/the-lefts-fear-of-resource-depletion Helping plans come together, one post at a time Sun, 03 May 2015 14:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.9 By: Benjamin http://afcmin.org/ateam/1524/the-lefts-fear-of-resource-depletion/comment-page-1#comment-3549 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:49:55 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=1524#comment-3549 Would, but can’t. Working my way through The Monkeywrench Gang. 😛

]]> By: Amy Hall http://afcmin.org/ateam/1524/the-lefts-fear-of-resource-depletion/comment-page-1#comment-3548 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:28:14 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=1524#comment-3548 I was using the word in the philosophical sense. Materialism: the physical world is all that exists.

I encourage you to read the book!

]]> By: Benjamin http://afcmin.org/ateam/1524/the-lefts-fear-of-resource-depletion/comment-page-1#comment-3547 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:06:22 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=1524#comment-3547 Huh. I’d have thought that the people who will willingly and gleefully trade the lives of millions of people in third world countries and billions of animals for their own material comforts would count as more materialistic than people saying we can do without. Maybe the term means different things to different people.

Even leaving that aside, though, isn’t counting on the ingenuity of the next few generations to clean up our messes kind of irresponsible? Seems sort of like a materialistic young person maxing out a bunch of credit cards for fancy toys and just assuming that they’ll have an awesome job in a few months and it won’t be an issue. Sure, it works out like that sometimes, but I wouldn’t call it a sound strategy.

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