The treadmill of production concept can be significantly enriched if it is incorporated into a world-systemic approach to the economic/ecological/political processes that development around dominant nations’ strategies for access to the raw materials that the treadmill requires that they consume at exponentially expanding rates.
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Stephen G. Bunker (2005) studied this question.
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