Sustainability practice in the early 21st century suffers from a 'materials blindness': the green technologies that designers were encouraged to specify cannot be manufactured without fossil fuels, so green design was complicit in the system it claimed to fix.

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none of these technologies that we as designers were being encouraged by their manufacturers to fit into our designs can be made without fossil fuels

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Could 'degrowth' save the world? | BBC NewsBBC News
Created: 6/18/2026, 2:18:09 PM

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