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"One lesson is that we could follow Edo's lead by striving to create a no-waste circular economy"
"A second lesson is to consider ratcheting down consumer demand to sustainable levels"
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240703-what-the-japanese-edo-period-can-teach-us-about-today

🔸This was covered nearly 2 decades ago, but our leaders didn't listen:
"Edo Period [#Japan] could serve as one model of a sustainable society [not based on] mass production and mass consumption...but rather the full utilization of limited resources."
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2005-04-05/japans-sustainable-society-edo-period-1603-1867/
#sustainability