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Well I think it goes right back to the source of mass prodution and facilitation of consumerism as well as educating the masses.
Turning lights of and appliances off standby is all good and if the world did that it would certainly make a small difference.
The inability to distinguish between want and need is fuelled by our ambitious and media and the phsycological games created to get into our head to have us buy more.
So the project I created is firstly about generating awareness and having people take an interest in what the future can look like.
As a race we are basically a parasite to this planet and as most parasites, the host can acctually do without us. And we're not inherently parasitc.
The world business climate change summit could be a turning point in all this as world leader bodies take a look at these issues.
Anyway you probably already know most of this and I would like to hear what you think
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