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What we are doing is not sustainable, and this problem is much bigger than changing all the light bulbs! Continuing to polish and refine our current industries and logistic chains to make them ever more efficient is not enough. It only puts off the day of reckoning and the ultimate collapse of societies. We really do have to rethink our use of energy, materials and manufacturing, including fabrication and supply chains plus the whole arena of reuse, repurpose and recycling (3R). We have no choice!
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Cochrane, P. (2019). Why Industry 4.0?. In: Dastbaz, M., Cochrane, P. (eds) Industry 4.0 and Engineering for a Sustainable Future. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12953-8_2
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