These people even paid, by having to cover their own health insurance.42 All along this system, people pitched in so I could get this radio for $4.99. And none of these contributions are recorded in any accounts book.

These people paid with the loss of their clean air, with increasing asthma and cancer rates. Kids in the Congo paid with their future—30% of the kids in parts of the Congo now have had to drop out of school to mine coltan,41 a metal we need for our disposable electronics

the reason it is in crisis is that it is a linear system and we live on a finite planet and you can not run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely