Excellent framing of the conflict between aspirational consumption and thermodynamic reality. The breakfast toast metaphor works well because it shows how deeply the more imperative is embedded from childhood, almost before reason kicks in. The zero-sum realization between affluent suburbs and informal settlements is what nobody wants to confront publicly, but the planetary boundaries research makes it mathematicaly unavoidable once you map material flows honestly.
Excellent framing of the conflict between aspirational consumption and thermodynamic reality. The breakfast toast metaphor works well because it shows how deeply the more imperative is embedded from childhood, almost before reason kicks in. The zero-sum realization between affluent suburbs and informal settlements is what nobody wants to confront publicly, but the planetary boundaries research makes it mathematicaly unavoidable once you map material flows honestly.