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   • Ruth Mottram

   @Ruth_Mottram

   Personally I have no contingency plan in front of me, because this is not a deviation from the trajectory I expected.

   Democracy only flourished X the costs of broad increases in standard of living could be externalized (ie: conquests, colonies, slaves, overfishing, pollution etc).

   (I'm not sure if 'X' is "because" or "while" and that is only of academic interest anyway.)

   In other words: Democracy seems to be a luxury item.

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     • Ruth Mottram

     @Ruth_Mottram

     We probably had a narrow window, no more than three decades, to try to transform our western democracies into something ecologically sustainable.

     But there were no short term profits in it, so we didn't.

     As Brecht let Jenny sing in the finale:

     "Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral."

     Today US voters condemned any land less than 8 meters above sea level, world-wide, because they think junk-food has become too expensive.

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