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- United Nations statistics on material footprint
- Self storage industry trends
- The environmental costs of fast fashion
- Story by Beth Porter, “What Really Happens to Unwanted Clothes?”
- Forbes list of billionaires
- George Carlin’s classic comedic bit about “stuff”
- Sandra Goldmark’s book Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet
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Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
Sources/Links/Notes:
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- Forbes list of billionaires
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