Thank you!

The "end consumer facing romaticism" of "circular economy" is pretty much the localized small-scale romanticism of E.F. Schumacher, Whole Earth Catalog, (the early) Stewart Brand, Amory B. Lovins, and many more. It not only doesn't scale; it presupposes for its working the economies and #infrastructure it wants to abolish to run at full capacity. As Ecotopia small town-fantasies are more or less the only conceptional framework 50 years of hippie and counterculture tinkering has managed to come up with, it should be clear by now that these conceptions have been a lifestyle fad exactly because they don't contribute anything meaningful to the solution or at least management of complex crises and the problem of recalcitrance and tenacity of infrastructures and economies. The best ecologically minded politicians seem to have come up with are suggestions that don't get beyond the idea of Ecotopia writ large. And this cannot work.