Working from home can reduce climate emissions.

Working from home keeps employees and their families safer from COVID-19.

But CEOs are forcing workers to return to the office so that they can protect real estate profits.

by self conscious I mean in the ecological non individuated unatomized sense of 'self' that realizes the colloquial notion of self for the fairytale that it is. We are mostly made up of microorganisms with nonhuman DNA. We require ecological dialectical relations to exist there is no individual

Are we locked into the maximum power principle and Klieber's law? Will we always act, as dissipative structures seem to, in order to maximize energy consumption? Can degrowth or postgrowth economies be run in ways that don't exhaust to the point of ecological overshoot? How can we overcome ourselves