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Major issues have arisen in the modern capitalist society and steadily infiltrate every aspect of our lives. Efficiency, sustainability and resource preservation have indeed become the mantras of our time. They are our great new and ever-present aspirations. Mere illusions that, by definition, are altogether incompatible with the logic of capitalism itself. Strictly speaking, an efficient system generates no waste, which is not a matter of course in the world in which we live, and sustainable development is a contradiction in terms, because a continuous flow of natural resources is clearly irreconcilable with an extractive economy. (more…)