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Status and Curiosity - On the Origins of Oil Addiction

[break]WHY ARE WE ADDICTED TO OIL?“Selfish behaviors are reward driven and innate, wired deeply into the survival mechanisms of the primitive brain, and when consistently reinforced, they will run away...

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The Psychological and Evolutionary Roots of Resource Overconsumption Revisited

This post examines our own history on the planet, outlines how the ancient-derived reward pathways of our brain are easily hijacked by modern stimuli, and concludes that in very real ways, we have...

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