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Episode Synopsis
🎙️ Episode 25 — Is the Sustainability Movement Secretly Anti-Poor?Hint: Green virtue for the rich. Green sacrifice for the rest.Sustainability is the new religion.But the gospel? Written in the Global North. Funded by tech bros. And paid for — in sweat, land, and silence — by the poor.This episode?We rip the solar panels off the narrative and ask what’s really being sustained — and who’s getting steamrolled in the name of “eco-progress.”👉 Why climate solutions are designed for Whole Foods, not food deserts👉 How electric virtue hides exploitative roots (hi, cobalt mines)👉 And what happens when climate “justice” becomes a class filter — not a global fixWe don’t rant.We reconstruct — using the 7-layer Integrated Thinking Stack (ITS):🧠 When “eco-consciousness” becomes a smokescreen for consumption inequality (Cognitive Cleanse)⚖️ Whose suffering powers your green lifestyle — and why ethics outsourced is ethics erased (Moral Intelligence)🌍 What collapses when we optimize systems that are fundamentally unjust (Systemic Foresight)🧍 How the poor are shamed for living simply — while the rich are praised for doing it by choice (Embodied Insight)👥 Why climate solutions fail when they ignore trust, culture, and real lives (Human-Centered Design)📉 What gets broken when resilience is a buzzword — not a right (Risk & Resilience)⚙️ How to design sustainability that includes the poor — or admit we’re not designing for the future (Execution Engine)This episode isn’t anti-green.It’s anti-bullsh*t.And it just might rewire how you think about progress.Hit play. And let’s unearth the roots. Layer by brutal, beautiful layer.
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