german: Hence the German situation in Hambacher the lignite has value because it can be sold to be burned, the 12,000-year-old forest has none unless the trees are cut down for economic use, according to The Guardian. And, in an infinite world, there are always more 12,000-year-old forests. This has the unintended consequence of rewarding destruction. This form of thinking might have been a useful simplification when human population and activities were at the levels of the Enlightenment, when much of the philosophy that still drives the economy was developed. But a resource that would have supplied an Enlightenment-sized population for 500 years would last today's just 35 years. Indeed, for any one individual the world is still a remarkably big place and it is difficult to imagine it running out of anything.
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