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When Voluntary Simplicity was first published in 1981, it quickly became recognized as a book concerned, not with living in poverty but with living in balance. For nearly two decades this powerful and visionary work has been a catalyst in the emerging dialogue over sustainable ways of living. As the push of environmental stress combines with the pull toward more meaningful ways of living, Duane Elgin's extensively revised and updated book is more relevant than ever.
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When Voluntary Simplicity was first published in 1981, it quickly became recognized as a powerful and visionary work in the emerging dialogue over sustainable ways of living. Now, more than ten years later and with many of the planet's environmental stresses having become more urgent than ever, Duane Elgin has revised and updated his revolutionary book.
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According to Trends Research Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, these groups are part of a phenomenon that is one of the top ten trends of the new millennium -- voluntary simplicity. In the past decade, dozens of books, magazines, newsletters, videos, and Web sites have appeared on the subject.
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Voluntary simplicity, if more widely embraced, might well be the best new source to help create the societal conditions under which the limited reallocation of wealth needed to ensure the basic needs of all could become politically possible. The reason is as basic and simple as it is essential: To the extent that the privileged (those whose basic creature comforts are well sated and who are engaging in conspicuous consumption) will find value, meaning and satisfaction in other pursuits, in those that are not labor or capital intensive, they can be expected to be more willing to give up some consumer goods and some income. The "freed" resources, in turn, can be shifted to those who basic needs have not been sated, without undue political resistance or backlash.
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Although prophets have preached the virtues of voluntary simplicity for millennia, the current simplicity movement has a sounder base in opposition to the consumer culture and in respect for all of creation on Earth. An increasing number of resources and organizations are available to help with learning to live more simply.
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Many Green Parties often advocate voluntary simplicity as a consequence of their "four pillars" or the "Ten Key Values" of the United States Green party. This includes in policy terms rejection of genetic modification and nuclear power and other potentially hazardous technologies. The Greens' support for simplicity is based on the reduction in natural resource usage and environmental impact. This concept is expressed in Ernest Callenbach's "green triangle" of ecology, frugality and health.
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