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ziq wrote

And how people fulfill their need if there was no industry?

This warrants a separate response.

What you define as your 'needs' are anything but needs. If they were needs, humans would have never been able to survive before the industrial age. But we did survive, and in fact we thrived for millennia before we began this increasingly destructive drive to accumulate industrial consumer goods at the expense of literally all life on the planet.

What we 'need' is a planet that can continue to sustain plant and animal life. In just 100 years, industry and agriculture have rapidly destroyed everything we rely on for our most basic survival. Climate change has forever altered the trajectory of life on this planet and driven billions of species to extinction because 100 years ago humans decided they 'need' to extract, refine, ship, manufacture, truck, consume and then dispose of (truck) our natural resources on a massive global scale.

So to answer your question, we fulfil our 'needs' by living off the land the way we did for millennia instead of acting like we're above it or that we have any right to destroy everything we inherited from our ancestors to satisfy our immediate pleasures and to hell with future generations that won't have fresh water to drink or air to breathe.

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