Dame Ellen MacArthur on the Need for a Circular Economy | WIRED 2013 | WIRED

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Yeah I don't think she knows how most manufacturing and energy companies work. It's all about the bottom line day to day, month to month. Nobody gives a shit about some scare about running out of resources in 115 years or whatever. Usually those projections are wrong. We have a ton of oil in the US alone, we could fuel ourselves as a country.