How 'keeping up with the Joneses' could destroy the planet
Modern societies have sharp status distinctions based on income and financial resources.As affluence grows globally, people spend more. Money spent is roughly equivalent to carbon pollution and climate change. Can the urge to splurge be brought under control? Or, is it terminal?Is excessive consumption an inherent feature of human psychology, or is it the product of modern prosperity? The answer is not cut and dried. On the one hand, there is ancient evidence of human consumption running amok.
partners. So, competition over social status may have encouraged the killing of more prey animals than needed.. However, Paleolithic societies were not simple. Some were settled and had a clear status system based on the varied quality of burial ceremonies and grave goods.
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