Consumption and destruction

I think these quotes from John Kenneth Galbraith go a long way towards explaining the UK election result and the woeful inadequacy of the response to the climate crisis.

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“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

“No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or...