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> (1) there is no inherent reason why it's wasteful or gross to own a lot of things Really? Maybe I'm a bit naive, but nearly everything you own was produced a
by grimoald 10y ago
> (1) there is no inherent reason why it's wasteful or gross to own a lot of things
Really? Maybe I'm a bit naive, but nearly everything you own was produced and transported by using natural resources and energy, and it will eventually lay on a garbage heap occupying space. So every existing thing at least makes a smaller or bigger contribution to environmental pollution and climate change.
- tjic 10y ago> everything you own was produced and transported by using natural resources and energy, True. But natural resources and energy are both effectively infinite. Further, just because an item USED these things does not mean that it WASTED these things. A lot of the minimalist aesthetic is about minimizing the use of things that, objectively, there's no particular reason to minimize the use of.