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Now the Earth is running out of stuff to support us, we must all learn to live smaller lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the increasing cost of everything and hardly rising wages, we are all having to buy less and save, recycle, go without and repair rather than buy a new one. We have got so used to having more of everything, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/02\/we-must-all-learn-to-live-smaller-lives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-jW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":91,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2010\/11\/three-cheers-for-wikileaks\/","url_meta":{"origin":1236,"position":0},"title":"Three Cheers For Wikileaks","author":"taxicle","date":"November 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"When will governments learn? 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