Four Reasons Why Unsustainability Is Totally Awesome

By: Matthew Battles
March 10, 2009

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1. Life is suffering;

2. The cause of suffering is craving;

3. The end of suffering is possible;

4. The way to suffering is found through right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.

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Part of the founding HILOBROW crew, Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology has appeared in such venues as The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Orion. His most recent book,Tree, was published in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2017. After ten years exploring the dark abundance of libraries and museums with metaLAB (at) Harvard, Matthew now edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.

Four Reasons Why Unsustainability Is Totally Awesome

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