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  • Whether clothing, furniture, electronics, vehicles, or buildings,

  • we surround ourselves with objects that we use only for a limited time.

  • The resources which are extracted from planet Earth to make these objects

  • are used once or twice and then dumped.

  • Yet, the resources on our planet are non-renewable and finite,

  • except for rainfall, sunlight, biomass, animals, and people.

  • And our global commons have become waste dumps.

  • Within 60 years, we have filled the oceans with millions of low-tech plastic objects

  • and space with thousands of high-tech objects.

  • So, the present industrial economy is not compatible

  • with the natural resources and waste dumps available on planet Earth.

  • More of the same is no business model for success.

  • We need to create higher standards of living

  • from a more intelligent resource use.

  • More from less.

  • I have an idea how to do it.

  • Circularity.

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  • It's great, you'll love it.

  • Circularity.

  • That is how nature works.

  • Water, biomass, CO2, seasons.

  • Nature works in cycles.

Whether clothing, furniture, electronics, vehicles, or buildings,

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