. . . A nonhuman animal consumes what is immediately available to it—for survival.
. . . In the Modern–era ‘mass consumption’ is human nature. In this regard it is more fundamental than burning of fossil fuels. “If mass consumption is human nature, can it be tamed, like anger?” you might ask. To do so we need to ask, not what we consume, but how much we consume.
Subhanker Banerjee's article on the CounterPunch website : Interpreting the Climate Impasse
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/27/interpreting-the-climate-impasse/
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